xUnit Introduction

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a discipline that helps to create error-free, quality code, and drives productivity by reducing and eliminating errors as well as providing many other benefits.

This entry-level training lesson is designed to bring you quickly up to speed with the basic features and processes involved in performing C# based test-driven development using xUnit. It covers the key principles and practices of test-driven development, which you can then utilize within your own software engineering projects.

In this lesson, you'll be guided through an end-to-end sample project in which we use test-driven development to build, test, and package a .NET Core 3.1 C# based library that will provide an API to convert Bitcoins into foreign currency.

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Learning Objectives

• Understand the fundamentals of TDD and xUnit
• Use TDD to build, test, and package a .NET Core 3.1 C# based library
• Perform TDD by performing Red-Green-Refactor iterations
• Learn how to use TDD to build, test, and package a .NET Core 3.1 C# based library
• Learn how to create unit tests using the xUnit testing framework

Intended Audience

• Software developers interested in using TDD to build .NET Core applications using C#

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of .NET Core and the C# programming language, as well as software development and the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Resources

• https://github.com/cloudacademy/csharp-tdd-bitcoinconverter