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DevOps Foundations: Validate Your Work with Automated Testing

In this lab, you’ll practice creating automated testing using the xUnit framework. When you’re finished, you’ll have the understanding necessary to begin validating your code with automated unit testing.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 1h 20m
Published
Clock icon Jun 24, 2024

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Examine a Test Project

    Test projects typically sit externally to the code so they don’t interfere with production instances. To start this lab, you will examine a software project in Visual Studio Code, and run its unit tests.

  3. Challenge

    Create a Simple Test

    In this challenge, you’ll create a simple test that exercises the function you want covered. You’ll learn the triple-A pattern in testing, and how to create a meaningful assertion that validates that the logic is correct.

  4. Challenge

    Create Code using Test-driven Development

    To finish this lab, you will start to create new code by writing the test first. This will allow you to clarify the expectations of the code’s behavior, and guarantee that it will be covered by a unit test.

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face.

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