We all know that developing software is hard. Automated software testing can greatly improve the developer experience and software quality. However, creating automated tests is a lot like playing chess. While the rules are simple, mastery takes a lot of effort and practice. Over these two days, you will learn and practice the skills necessary to gain the benefit of automated testing.

In this two-day hands-on workshop, we begin with an open discussion of the benefits and friction of incorporating automated testing into your development process. We will then have a story mapping session to allow you, the attendees, to set additional goals for the course.

Next, we dive deep into two of the main tools used in this course, xUnit and MOQ. xUnit is an open-source automated testing framework for C#, and MOQ is a .NET mocking framework, also open-source. After a thorough understanding of the xUnit and MOQ, we will explore Test Driven Development (TDD) through a series of software katas to ensure you are on your way to developing the necessary muscle memory to make TDD effective. In this section, we also explore Machine Specifications (MSpec), another .NET testing framework

The next section of the workshop covers integration testing Data Access Layer (DAL) code using transacted automated tests. In this section, we use xUnit to create automated integration tests for EF Core.

The last framework section of the workshop tests web applications using Microsoft’s PlayWright.

As Michael Feathers stated, any code that is not under test is considered legacy code, and legacy code is the focus of the next section of the workshop. Adding testing to existing code is commonly referred to as Test Eventual Development (TED), and has a new and different set of challenges.

Come join us for two days of deep dives into automated software testing!

You will learn:

• The importance of automated testing
• The importance of mocking out dependencies
• The xUnit, MSpec, and MOQ frameworks
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and Test Eventual Development (TED)
• Transacted integration testing for data access layers
• Web application testing with Microsoft’s Playwright.

Attendee Workstation Requirements:
You must provide your own computer (Windows or Mac) for this hands-on lab workshop with a camera, wired Internet connection, speakers, and a microphone.

Your computer must have the ability to run C# 10 code: (One of Visual Studio 2022/VSCode 1.66+/VSMac/Rider/etc.) and access to SQL Server for integration tests.