Creating Maintainable Contexts for Automated Testing

This course will show you how to create a typical test context. It will also explain the factors that can make it fragile and difficult to maintain. We can use software principles that we are all familiar with and patterns that we might not have seen before to create contexts that focus on the most important information to understand what your tests are trying tell you. The Object Mother pattern is a common way to create test contexts. We will start with the general principles. We'll then move on to the Object Builder, a modern, expressive version of the Object Mother. You'll also learn how to use Roslyn C# scripts for the repetitive parts of the Object Builder patterns so you can get to the fun stuff. This course will give you an understanding of what makes a good test environment and how to use it in your current and future projects.