Complete Guide to Unit Testing in .NET Core (NUnit and xUnit)

Complete Guide to Unit Testing in .NET Core (NUnit and xUnit)

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Master unit testing with NUnit, xUnit, and MOQ with a real-world N-Tier web application with the latest version of .NET Core 6 and EF Core

Updated on Sep, 2026

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"Production application can break with a simple change that was unexpected to alter any other functionality." Sounds familiar, right?

The good news is, with well-written unit tests this would be a thing of the past.

Automated testing has been a buzzword for a while, but many times developers struggle to find a course that covers the fundamentals of unit testing while implementing what they learned in a real-world project! That is the focus of this course.

This course is all about writing effective unit tests using C# programming language and NUnit / XUnit as a unit testing framework. Along the way, we will learn the concepts related to unit testing. Today unit testing is a required skill from any professional developer. Companies expect developers to know how to write unit tests using the best practices. This course will help you set up a solid foundation with a real-world example and how unit testing could be done in a .NET core web application with EF Core.

By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation with unit testing. Along with a solid foundation, you’ll also implement what is learned in real-world N-Tier web applications with .NET 6 and EF Core.

All the code files and resource files are added to the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sparky

This course is designed for the .NET developer who wants to build better-quality software with fewer bugs. This will also help them to learn unit testing from scratch and reinforce their fundamental learning with real-world applications.

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