MSTest Unit Testing Tutorial for beginners : C# Unit Testing

Name: MSTest Unit Testing Tutorial for beginners : C# Unit Testing
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Learn how to write effective unit tests using Microsoft MSTest framework to build high quality software applications

Created byVenkat Kud

Last updated 1/2016

English

What you'll learn

Understand unit testing concepts and their improtance and power when developing software applications
Write effective unit tests using C# and MSTest framework to test software applications
Will be able to answer most of the unit testing related interview questions
C# unit testing

Course content

8 sections • 42 lectures • 3h 51m total length

Introduction2:35
Learn how to write effective unit tests with MSTest, understand the importance of unit testing for beginners and developers, and prepare for interviews with practical techniques to test software automatically.
What is a Unit Test3:51
Creating your first unit test7:15
Benefits of unit tests8:25
Continuous Integration1:21
Who should write Unit Tests0:58
Naming conventions6:16

Code Coverage9:09
Analyze code coverage to see how tests cover the divide method in the calculator library. Recognize that 100% coverage may not guarantee meaningful tests; exclude from code coverage attribute.
TestClass and TestMethod attirbutes2:24
Learn how TestClass and TestMethod attributes enable Visual Studio to discover MSTest unit tests, and how duplicates or missing attributes cause compilation or discovery errors.
Testing Exceptions6:21
Unit Testing Private Methods7:57
Ordered Test4:55
Discover how an ordered test acts as a container for unit tests to guarantee a specific execution order, and learn how to add, arrange, run, and handle failures.
Generic Test6:38
Running unit tests from the command line12:01

TestContext7:51
Data-Driven Unit Test13:27
Learn to implement data driven unit tests using a SQL Server data source, validating an employee's email with a regex, and accessing test data via test context.
Data-Driven Unit Test - XML5:20
drive an MSTest unit test from an XML data source by adding employees.xml, configuring the data source for XML, and ensuring valid email data.
Data-Driven Unit Test - CSV3:08
Using a Configuration File to Define a Data Source8:25

Asserts1:55
Assert class7:10
Assert Object Equality5:48
CollectionAssert3:57
CollectionAssert.AreEqual Override Equals2:41
CollectionAssert.AreEqual IComparer3:39
Learn to use CollectionAssert.AreEqual with a custom IComparer to compare two customer objects by name, implementing a three-parameter overload and handling nulls in MSTest unit tests.
CollectionAssert.AreEqual project to list of strings1:33
CollectionAssert.AreEquivalent4:09
Explore how CollectionAssert.AreEquivalent differs from AreEqual by validating that two collections have the same elements regardless of order, with practical unit tests and customizable assertion messages.
CollectionAssert - Rest of the methods4:25
StringAssert3:07

Requirements

C# Basics
Visual Studio

Description

What is the course about : This course is all about writing effective unit tests using C# programming language and MSTest framework. Along the way we will learn the concepts related to unit testing. Most organisations these days expect it's employees to have unit testing skills, as unit testing is becoming more and more important for the quality of the software applications.

If you have reached this course by using any of the following terminology, you are at the right place, and you will become an expert in writing unit tests in just 4 hours.

Visual Studio unit testing tutorial
MSTest unit testing tutorial
Dot Net testing framework
C# unit test framework
Visual Studio unit testing framework tutorial
csharp unit testing tutorial

How long is the course : The course is around 4 hours. All are video lectures. You will be able to download all the slides and code samples used in the course.

What will we be covering : We will start with, what is a unit test and we will write our first unit test, followed by benefits of unit tests. and unit test naming conventions.

We will also cover running, debugging, auto generating unit tests, grouping unit tests in visual studio, unit test traits, filtering, playlists, code coverage in visual studio, unit testing exceptions, unit testing private methods, visual studio ordered test, visual studio generic test, unit testing assertions and running unit tests from command line

The following visual studio unit testing attributes are discussed with examples

TestClass attribute
TestMethod attribute
TestInitialize attribute
TestCleanup attribute
ClassInitialize attribute
ClassCleanup attribute
AssemblyInitialize attribute
AssemblyCleanup attribute
TimeOut attribute
Ignore attribute

We also discuss the following concepts related to advanced unit testing with examples

What is TestContext
Visual Studio data driven unit tests
What is test driven development TDD
Benefits of TDD

Who this course is for:

Students who are learning C#
All c# who want to learn unit testing

MSTest Unit Testing Tutorial for beginners : C# Unit Testing

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Course content

Unit Testing Basics7 lectures • 31min

Running Unit Tests3 lectures • 16min

Grouping and Filtering Unit Tests4 lectures • 31min

Code Coverage7 lectures • 49min

Data Driven Unit Tests5 lectures • 38min

Initialize and Cleanup attributes4 lectures • 21min

Unit Test Assertions10 lectures • 38min

TDD - Test Driven Development2 lectures • 7min

Requirements

Description

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