Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

Write loosely coupled, documented, and high-quality code with DDD using familiar tools and libraries

Adam Tibi

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

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I would like to thank my dear partner, Elvira, for keeping me on track, and for her support and encouragement throughout the book-writing journey. I wouldn’t have done it without you. Also, thank you to my lovely sons, Robin and Charlie, for understanding why daddy was busy.

Also, I would like to thank the person who believed in me and enthused me, my teacher Dr. Jaber M. Jaber, and my favorite technical author of all time, Charles Petzold, who inspired me with his writing style and simplicity.

I would like to thank the editors, Nithya Sadanandan and Yashi Gupta, for their patience with me and for their remarks.

Finally, I would like to thank the reviewer, Ahmed Ilyas, for his comments and for his good grades for each chapter, which kept me going with passion.

Contributors

About the author

Adam Tibi is a London-based software consultant with over 22 years of experience in .NET, Python, the Microsoft stack, and Azure. He is experienced in mentoring teams, designing architecture, promoting agile and good software practices, and, of course, writing code. Adam has consulted for blue-chip firms including Shell, Lloyds Bank, Lloyd’s of London, Willis Towers Watson, and for a mix of start-ups. As a consultant who has a heterogeneous portfolio of clients, he has gained a solid understanding of the TDD intricacies, which he has transferred into this book.

About the reviewers

Ahmed Ilyas has 18 years of professional experience in software development.

After leaving Microsoft, he ventured into setting up his consultancy company, offering the best possible solutions for a multitude of industries and providing real-world answers to those problems. He only uses the Microsoft stack to build these technologies and provide the best practices, patterns, and software to his client base to enable long-term stability and compliance in the ever-changing software industry, but also to help software developers around the globe to improve as well as push the limits of technology.

Three times awarded MVP in C# by Microsoft and with a great reputation earned, he has a large client base for his consultancy company, Sandler Software LLC, which includes clients from different industries. Clients have included him on their “approved contractors/consultants” list as a trusted vendor and partner and this further led to his joining Microsoft again.

He has been involved in reviewing books for Packt Publishing in the past and wishes to thank them for the great opportunity once again.