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Microsoft Fakes Fundamentals

This course teaches you how to use Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Fakes to improve your unit tests.

Intermediate
1h 56m
(304)

Created by Jim Cooper and Donald Belcham

Last Updated Jun 27, 2019

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Microsoft Fakes Fundamentals

This course teaches you how to use Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Fakes to improve your unit tests.

Intermediate
1h 56m
(304)

Created by Jim Cooper and Donald Belcham

Last Updated Jun 27, 2019

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In this course you will learn how to use the Microsoft Fakes provided with Visual Studio 2012 to isolate your tests from the dependencies of the classes you are unit testing. It will teach you how to use stubs to track dependency collaboration and to control program flow. It will also teach you how to use shims to test legacy code.

Microsoft Fakes Fundamentals
Intermediate
1h 56m
(304)
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Jim Cooper - Pluralsight course - Microsoft Fakes Fundamentals
Jim Cooper
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Jim Cooper is a software developer at Pluralsight. With more than 20 years of software development experience, he has gained a passion for Agile software development -- especially Lean.

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Donald Belcham
9 courses 4.4 author rating 5180 ratings

Donald Belcham is a senior software developer, independent contractor, and agile development expert who is a strong supporter of fundamental OO patterns and practices. Since 2007, he has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in C# and is a member of the JetBrains Academy.

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