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C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development
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C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development

by Ayobami Adewole
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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xUnit.net theory attribute for creating data-driven tests

In xUnit.net, data-driven tests are known as theories. They are tests decorated with the Theory attribute. When a test method is decorated with the Theory attribute, it must additionally be decorated with a data attribute, which will be used by the test runner to determine the source of the data to be used in executing the test:

[Theory]public void Test_CalculateRates_ShouldReturnRate(){   // test not implemented yet}

When a test is marked as data theory, the data fed into it from the data source is directly mapped to the parameters of the test method. Unlike the regular test decorated with the Fact attribute, which is executed only once, the number of times a data theory is executed ...

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