Create Web APIs with ASP.NET Core Using Outside In TDD

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Live-coding builds a web API in ASP.NET Core using outside-in TDD: one acceptance test drives the outer loop and a suite of unit tests fills the inner loop, with mocks/doubles used to keep acceptance tests fast. Tests target clear boundaries: controller-level tests verify translation to application types, application-service tests verify repository side effects, integration tests check adapter-to-database shape, and very few end-to-end tests validate overall configuration.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:04Direction of development
3. 2:56Classic vs. London School of TDD
4. 6:45Test doubles
5. 13:15Boundaries - Acceptance tests
6. 14:42Boundaries - Unit tests
7. 24:46Boundaries - Integration tests
8. 29:26Boundaries - End-to-end tests
9. 31:12Where does design happen in the TDD cycle?
10. 34:33Questions and Answers

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