March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
538 pages
13h 19m
English
book
Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
by Glenn Block, Pablo Cibraro, Pedro Felix, Howard Dierking, Darrel Miller
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Chapter 17. Testability
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
As developers, we often find ourselves in situations where we spend a significant amount of time trying to troubleshoot issues that might occur in our Web API implementation. In many cases, we just use a trial-and-error method with a browser or an HTTP debugger, but this sort of manual testing is time-consuming, irreproducible, and error-prone. To make things worse, as the number of scenarios that our Web API can cover increases, manually testing every possible path becomes a daunting task.
Over the years, different tools and practices have emerged to improve our lives as developers. Automated testing, for example, is one of the areas in which a lot of improvement has been made. Automated testing in this context consists of creating or configuring a piece of software to perform testing for us. There are some obvious advantages with this approach: a test becomes reproducible, and it can be run at any time, or we can even schedule it to run automatically with no interaction whatsoever.
As part of this chapter, we will explore the two most popular choices for developers to automate software testing in ASP.NET Web API: unit testing and integration testing. For those who are not familiar with these concepts, we have included a brief introduction to the subject, which also mentions test-driven development (TDD) as a core practice. Since this could be a very extensive subject, we have constrained it to ASP.NET ...
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