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Tools and Skills for .NET 8

You're reading from   Tools and Skills for .NET 8 Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions 

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635207
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET 2. Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor FREE CHAPTER 3. Source Code Management Using Git 4. Debugging and Memory Troubleshooting 5. Logging, Tracing, and Metrics for Observability 6. Documenting Your Code, APIs, and Services 7. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically 8. Protecting Data and Apps Using Cryptography 9. Building an LLM-Based Chat Service 10. Dependency Injection, Containers, and Service Lifetime 11. Unit Testing and Mocking 12. Integration and Security Testing 13. Benchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress Testing 14. Functional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and Services 15. Containerization Using Docker 16. Cloud-Native Development Using .NET Aspire 17. Design Patterns and Principles 18. Software and Solution Architecture Foundations 19. Your Career, Teamwork, and Interviews 20. Epilogue 21. Index

Testing web services using xUnit

There are multiple ways to test web services:

  • Automated testing frameworks like xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest
  • HTTP request editors like REST Client for VS Code or HTTP Editor in Visual Studio
  • GUI tools like Postman, NSwag, or Swagger UI

    Warning!

    Swashbuckle package integration will be removed in .NET 9. You can learn more about this at the following link: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/54599. The ASP.NET Core team will replace the OpenAPI document generation with a built-in feature, but they have no plans to replace the user interface for testing.

One of the trickier aspects of testing web services is how to host the web service during testing and how to simulate an HTTP context. Integration tests for ASP.NET Core projects require the following:

  • A test project to contain and execute the tests. The test project has a reference to the website or web service project...
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