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Improving your C# Skills

You're reading from   Improving your C# Skills Solve modern challenges with functional programming and test-driven techniques of C#

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Product type Course
Published in Feb 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838558383
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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Clayton Hunt Clayton Hunt
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John Callaway John Callaway
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Rod Stephens Rod Stephens
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. What's New in .NET Core 2 and C# 7? FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring Performance 3. Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming in .NET Core 4. Securing and Implementing Resilience in .NET Core Applications 5. Why TDD is Important 6. Setting Up the .NET Test Environment 7. Setting Up a JavaScript Environment 8. What to Know Before Getting Started 9. Tabula Rasa – Approaching an Application with TDD in Mind 10. Testing JavaScript Applications 11. Exploring Integrations 12. Changes in Requirements 13. The Legacy Problem 14. Unraveling a Mess 15. Geometry 16. Randomization 17. Files and Directories 18. Advanced C# and .NET Features 19. Cryptography 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

So, what is TDD?


Searching online, you will certainly find that TDD is an acronym for Test-Driven Development. We, however, use a slightly more meaningful definition. So, what is TDD? In the simplest terms, TDD is an approach to software development that is intended to reduce errors and enable flexibility within the application. If done correctly, TDD is a building block for rapid, accurate, and fearless application development. 

Test-Driven Development is a means of letting your tests drive the design of the system. What does that mean, exactly? It means that you mustn't start with a solution in mind, you must let your tests drive the code being written. This helps minimize needless complexity and avoid over-architected solutions. The rules of Test-Driven Development

Staunch proponents of TDD dictate that you may not write a single line of production code without writing a failing unit test, and failing to compile is a failure. This means that you write a simple test, watch it fail, then...

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