TestingPatterns

This project is to record and share patterns and libraries that make testing

• easier
• more resilient
• more powerful
• more descriptive

As a result, it also demonstrates many other patterns and libraries that enable good development practices.

Here is the presentation the triggered the project: https://20xtesting.slides.spencerfarley.com

Here is a presentation that describes the design philosphies: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjVvNQ4uturOby6OwKMFpMUlMqA

This project is very much overkill for a Todo list. However, the overkill is to demonstrate the patterns in a way that can easily be transfered to a large project

Testing Patterns

• Dependency Injection
• DataPrep (centralized test data generators)
• ConfigWrappers //pending
• Inconclusive tests to mark untested code
• Test name modification for test runner (display extra info without manually adding it to each test name)
• Unit/Integration test reuse

Testing Libraries

• JustMock (test dependency generator; https://www.telerik.com/products/mocking.aspx)
  • alternatives: Moq, MSFakes, RhinoMocks
• DeepEqual (https://github.com/jamesfoster/DeepEqual)
  • alternatives: NUnit.DeepObjectCompare (https://github.com/PolarbearDK/NUnit.DeepObjectCompare)
• Bogus (https://github.com/bchavez/Bogus)
  • alternatives: AutoFixture
• .NET Transactions TransactionScope
• NUnit
  • alternatives: MSTest

Example Build Pipeline: https://spencerfarley.visualstudio.com/TestingPatterns/