Professional Test-Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: GETTING STARTED

CHAPTER 1: THE ROAD TO TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

The Classical Approach to Software Development

A Brief History of Software Engineering

From Waterfall to Iterative and Incremental

A Quick Introduction to Agile Methodologies

A Brief History of Agile Methodologies

The Principles and Practices of Test-Driven Development

The Concepts Behind TDD

TDD as a Design Methodology

TDD as a Development Practice

The Benefits of TDD

A Quick Example of the TDD Approach

Summary

CHAPTER 2: AN INTRODUCTION TO UNIT TESTING

What Is a Unit Test?

Unit Test Definition

What Is Not a Unit Test?

Other Types of Tests

A Brief Look at NUnit

What Is a Unit Test Framework?

The Basics of NUnit

Decoupling with Mock Objects

Why Mocking Is Important

Dummy, Fake, Stub, and Mock

Best and Worst Practices

A Brief Look at Moq

What Does a Mocking Framework Do?

A Bit About Moq

Moq Basics

Summary

CHAPTER 3: A QUICK REVIEW OF REFACTORING

Why Refactor?

A Project's Lifecycle

Maintainability

Code Metrics

Clean Code Principles

OOP Principles

Encapsulation

Inheritance

Polymorphism

The SOLID Principles

The Single Responsibility Principle

The Open/Close Principle

The Liskov Substitution Principle

The Interface Segregation Principle

The Dependency Inversion Principle

Code Smells

What Is a Code Smell?

Duplicate Code and Similar Classes

Big Classes and Big Methods

Comments

Bad Names

Feature Envy

Too Much If/Switch

Try/Catch Bloat

Typical Refactoring

Extract Classes or Interfaces

Extract ...