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 

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635207

Length 778 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

Understanding functional and end-to-end testing

Functional testing verifies that individual components or features of an application work as intended by comparing actual outcomes against specified requirements. It is granular, often automated, and tests inputs and expected outputs without delving into the system’s internals.

End-to-end testing simulates real user scenarios by testing the entire application flow from start to finish, encompassing multiple integrated components to ensure that they work properly together. This type of testing validates the complete system, identifying issues that may arise from interactions between different parts of the application, thus providing a more holistic assurance of software functionality and reliability.

We will start with some examples that span various common functionalities in modern .NET applications, from web services to user interfaces. As you will see, E2E tests are more complex and involve multiple features, whereas...