Mastering Unit Testing Principles with NUnit

Gain insights into unit testing principles, and delve into configuring and using NUnit. Discover how to write effective tests, maximize coverage, and elevate your testing projects.

Intermediate

58 Lessons

17h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into unit testing principles, and delve into configuring and using NUnit. Discover how to write effective tests, maximize coverage, and elevate your testing projects.

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29 Quizzes

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29 Quizzes

Course Overview

Industry, employers, startups, and amateur developers are increasingly looking towards unit testing their software. Unit testing is one of the most reliable ways to find and keep software bugs at bay, thus reducing costs and development pains. Developers working with the .NET framework are overwhelmingly turning to NUnit to meet their unit testing needs. In this course, you’ll learn the principles of unit testing, and in the process, learn to configure and use the NUnit testing framework. Given that the co...Show More

What You'll Learn

A thorough understanding of unit testing principles

Hands-on experience writing unit tests using the NUnit framework

Familiarity with practices that make testing effective, maintainable, and agile

Familiarity with testing industry practices, trends, and tools

What You'll Learn

A thorough understanding of unit testing principles

Course Content

Fundamentals of Unit Testing

Learn how to use unit testing principles, frameworks, and best practices with NUnit.

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The Perils of Manual Testing

The Perils of Software Regression

The Essence of Automated Testing

The Essence of Unit Testing

Navigating Various Unit Test Frameworks

Internal Structure of Test Methods

Effectively Arranging Input Data for Test Cases

Positive vs Negative Tests

Identifying Application Code to Test

Unit Test Coverage: Concepts and Techniques

Unit Test Naming Conventions

Unit Testing Best Practices

Quiz Yourself on Introduction to Unit Testing

Challenge: Test Using Best Practices

Solution: Test Using Best Practices

Testing Conditions With Classic And Fluent Assertions

Discover the logic behind unit testing conditions with various NUnit assertions and techniques.

Summary of Classic and Fluent Assertions

Working With Reference Types

Asserting Strings

Assert Value Categories

Assertions and Test Cases for Enumerables and Collections

Asserting Types

Asserting Values in Range

Testing Within and Outside of Contract

Asserting Exceptions

Quiz Yourself on Assertions

Challenge: Using Appropriate Assertions

Solution: Using Appropriate Assertions

Making Unit Testing More Effective

Work your way through reducing redundancy, parameterizing tests, and balancing testing approaches.

Reducing Code Redundancy Between our Test Cases

Reducing Code Redundancy Within Test Cases

Parameterizing Tests More Effectively

Reducing Code Redundancy Using Many Test Fixtures

Testing the Application Code Implementation

Pitching Tests at the Right Level

Test After Development

Black-box Testing

Test-Driven Development

Quiz Yourself on Making Unit Testing More Effective

Challenge: Unit Test Using Test After Development

Solution: Unit Test Using Test After Development

Challenge: Unit Test Using Test-Driven Development

Solution: Unit Test Using Test-Driven Development

Unit Testing Code with External Dependencies

Build a foundation in managing external dependencies, employing mocks, and dependency injection.

External Dependencies and Their Challenges

Convert From Tightly to Loosely Coupled Dependencies

Using Dependency Injection Containers

Bypassing External Dependencies with a Mocking Framework

Quiz Yourself on Testing with Dependencies and Mocks

Challenge: Using Mocks on Loosely Coupled Code

Solution: Using Mocks on Loosely Coupled Code

Conclusion

Take a look at key unit testing principles, essential terminology, and resources in .NET.

Unit Testing in a Nutshell

Glossary of Unit Testing and Related Terms

Unit Testing Resources

Appendix - Unit Test Project Organization and Console Setup

6 Lessons

Focus on setting up and running NUnit projects, utilizing test coverage tools, and structuring test projects.

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