Visual Studio 2022 Training Overview
This Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2022 training course teaches attendees how to use Visual Studio to design, write, and run high-quality .NET unit tests. Students learn how to use Visual Studio as it relates to unit testing and Test-Driven Development. This course also introduces other popular unit testing tools and techniques and demonstrates how they integrate with Visual Studio and your development lifecycle.
Note: This course can also be taught using Visual Studio 2019.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, we offer some courses as live, instructor-led online classes for individuals.
Objectives
- Understand the concepts of unit testing
- Write, run, and manage unit tests and test results
- Incorporate Test Driven Development (TDD) and understand the business case for why one should practice it
- Write high-quality unit tests
- Work with additional unit testing features found in Visual Studio
- Use tools and techniques for testing difficult code, such as code with runtime dependencies
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students should have experience or familiarity with:
- The Visual C# language
- Visual Studio 2019 or 2022
- Writing, debugging, and maintaining code
- Application Lifecycle Management basics
- Building a high-quality software product
- Their organization’s development lifecycle
Outline
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Unit Testing in .NET
- What is (and isn’t) a unit test
- Why write unit tests
- .NET unit testing frameworks
- MSTest, NUnit, xUnit
- The anatomy of a unit test
- Writing and running your first unit test
Unit Testing in Visual Studio
- Testing support in Visual Studio
- MSTest, NUnit, and xUnit test projects
- Test Explorer and other windows
- Writing and running unit tests in Visual Studio
- Managing a large number of tests and test results
- Organizing tests by grouping, filtering, and playlists
- Continuous testing in Visual Studio
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- TDD overview and benefits
- Practicing TDD within Visual Studio
- Effectively refactoring code
- Working with legacy code
- Using CodeLens to support TDD and refactoring
Writing Good Unit Tests
- Asking questions about your code
- Path testing (e.g., happy, sad, evil, etc.)
- Right BICEP testing
- Testing for expected exceptions
- Maintaining high-quality test code
- Unit test naming conventions (e.g., BDD)
- Organizing unit tests
Leveraging Visual Studio
- Analyzing code coverage
- Using code coverage as a metric
- Data-driven (parameterized) unit tests
- DataRow, DynamicData, and DataSource attributes
- Concurrent testing using Live Unit Testing
- Concurrent testing using NCrunch
Testing Difficult Code
- The need to isolate code under test
- Doubles (dummies, stubs, fakes, and mocks)
- Microsoft Fakes framework (stubs and shims)
- Comparing mocking frameworks
- Using moq .NET mocking framework
- Debugging and profiling slow-running unit tests
- Using IntelliTest with legacy code
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Unit Testing training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- Visual Studio 2019 or 2022 with the latest update
- Access to an Azure DevOps Server instance
- Related lab files that Accelebrate would provide
