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Should you unit-test API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core?

In this post I discuss unit testing of API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core and some of the difficulties you face.…

In this post I discuss the changes required to upgrade integration tests that use WebApplicationFactory or TestServer to ASP.NET Core 3.0.…

Running smoke tests for ASP.NET Core apps in CI using Docker

In this post I'll describe how to use Docker to run a smoke test as part of a CI build pipeline to check that an ASP.NET Core app is able to start up…

Creating strongly typed xUnit theory test data with TheoryData

In this post I show how you can create strongly-typed data for your xUnit theory tests using the TheoryData class, instead of using IEnumerable<object[]>.…

Creating a custom xUnit theory test DataAttribute to load data from JSON files

In this post I'll show how you can create a custom implementation of an xUnit DataAttribute that loads the data for theory tests from JSON files.…

Creating parameterised tests in xUnit with [InlineData], [ClassData], and [MemberData]

In this post I describe how to create parameterised tests using xUnit's [Theory], [InlineData], [ClassData], and [MemberData] attributes.…