This workshop will get you started on the right track and teach you all the best practices you need to know to write clean and effective unit and integration tests in .NET with C#. 

It will also introduce you to the concept of performance testing and get you started with testing how your applications perform when pushed to their limits.

- Understanding the different types of testing
- Introduction to Unit testing
- Mocking
- Fakes
- Assertions
- Creating test data at scale
- Creating realistic test data
- Testing “untestable” code
- Code coverage
- Measuring code coverage
- The value of code coverage
- Introduction to Mutation testing

- Introduction to Integration testing
- Understanding the WebApplicationFactory
- Mocking third party API dependencies
- Building test-specific environments using Docker
- Databases
- APIs
- Integration testing Web UI
- Introduction to Performance testing
- Load testing
- Stress testing
- Soak testing
- Smoke testing

This workshop is aimed at backend developers with some experience writing applications using C# and .NET.

The workshop will not focus on .NET Framework at all and will only briefly touch on front end testing.

Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider or VS Code

Docker Desktop (no need for Kubernetes to be installed)

2 Days

From Zero to Hero: Effective testing in C#

.NET

Testing

This hands-on workshop provides practical guidance and recommendations. We will cover architecture, technologies, tools, and frameworks. We will examine strategies for organizing your projects, folders, and files. We will design a system that is simple to build and maintain - now and well into the future.

You will leave this workshop having developed the foundation and structure for your next enterprise application, along with the knowledge to take your enterprise application development to the next level.

Required workload - ASP.NET and web development

You can also use your preferred IDE, e.g. Visual Studio Code or JetBrains Rider.

Practical Clean Architecture with .NET 7

Architecture

Like most of the harder challenges we face in software development, increasing the security of software is a journey that takes careful planning, a lot of collaboration, and a healthy dose of iterating as you learn more. It’s the type of complex journey that goes more smoothly when you have a map.


In this workshop, we’ll look at what secure software roadmaps are, why they’re a useful tool to use as part of your overall software security approach, and how you can build one of your own.


Over the course of 2 days, you will go from a basic understanding of what makes a good application security program to having planned your own program roadmap- ready for you to go back to your company and implement.

Understanding what an application security program and roadmap are, why they are important and how they are structured

How to measure and understand your current maturity level including how to use OWASP SAMM and OWASP ASVS for measuring your existing programs or practices from a product and lifecycle perspective.

Setting realistic expectations and goals for your program

Defining what actions you can take to weave security through your software development lifecycle

Understanding how to measure progress as you implement your program

Anticipating and planning for common challenges we encounter when developing and implementing an application security program.


Software development leads who wish to support application security across their projects and teams.

Cyber security leaders and application security engineers looking to expand their approach to be more development aware

Those who wish to move towards application security in their organisation in a structured and measurable way.

A solid understanding of the concepts covered

A draft application security program roadmap that is tailored to your organisation and its current maturity level

You need to bring a laptop to this workshop.

Build your own application security program

Security

Here are a few of the topics and techniques covered in this workshop:

Record types – What are they? How do you use them? Why?

Nullable reference types – Moving towards immutability and avoiding null reference exceptions

Asynchronous Programming – Working with Streams and best practices

Pattern matching – Writing more beautiful and understandable code

Using Span of T - Writing fast and memory efficient code

Each topic will be thoroughly covered, followed by exercises that allow you to understand and incorporate these language features in your projects. We will talk about how the application changes, benefits and drawbacks of applying the language features.

We’ll be discussing application design, leveraging new language features and try to answer any of the questions you might have!

This is a workshop you really don’t want to miss if you’re a C# developer in 2023!

Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, or Rider

Developing with C# 

Programming Languages

In this tutorial, we will look at distributed systems, such as microservices, and how we integrate them. We will understand why we would prefer to messaging, the fundamentals and key concepts of messaging and how to build an event driven architecture. If you have ever been put off moving from HTTP or RPC-based solutions to messaging because of the need to learn how to implement messaging-based solutions, this workshop will get you started. if you have been using messaging but want to gain a firmer understanding of how to build event driven architectures, this workshop will help you understand how to succeed with reactive approaches.



The material is presented in four parts: integrating distributed systems, an introduction to messaging (hands-on exercises), advanced messaging, and event driven architectures.

Hands-on exercises are offered in C#, JavaScript, Python and Go.



Messaging Architectures and Simple Patterns

Insights from Paper Offices and Flow-Based Programming

Commands or Event? Orchestration and Choreography.


We will use Rabbit MQ for examples. You need not have the latter installed on your machine, but you should have Docker installed on your machine, as exercises will use Docker Compose.

This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) course. At BYOD courses delegates are required to bring their own laptop with the necessary software installed.

The exercises are self-paced and you will find it helpful to have headphones to listen to the material that accompanies each exercise (though scripts are provided for those who cannot use headphones).

Practical Messaging

DevOps

Python

In this workshop, we will introduce you to GraphQL and the major concepts behind it. We will look at how to build a GraphQL server with ASP.NET Core 7 and Hot Chocolate. You will learn how to query GraphQL and what tools are out there that can help you explore and manage large schemas. Further, we will dive into React and explore how to efficiently build fast and fluent web interfaces using the JavaScript client Relay.

.NET, ASP.NET Core, GraphQL, Hot Chocolate, React, Relay

GraphQL client ecosystem in .NET and JavaScript (Apollo vs Relay)

You will need basic knowledge of .NET and JavaScript.

Also, you will need a computer with the .NET 7 SDK, Nodejs LTS, and Visual Studio Code.

Building Modern Apps with GraphQL in ASP.NET Core 7 and React 18

React

This hands-on workshop will take you through an end-to-end software lifecycle, starting with GitHub Issues and Projects for planning, GitHub Codespaces for a super efficient inner loop of development, and GitHub Actions to take your applications into production.

How to effectively plan and track your work using GitHub Issues

How to manage your projects within and across repositories in your organisation

The free and paid options for coding in the cloud, including the web editor and GitHub Codespaces

How and when to use GitHub Actions for non-CI/CD automation

Techniques and strategies for safe and effective software engineering using GitHub tooling

Techniques for effective collaboration in remote teams

Software engineers, team leads, and DevOps specialists, regardless of their level of GitHub adoption.

Any laptop with a keyboard and a browser.

In fact, you could probably get by with a tablet - it's a new world!

NDC { Sydney }

Workshops

09:00 - 17:00 (UTC+11)

End-to-end DevOps with GitHub

Anthony Borton

Andre Kolodochka

Michelle Mannering

Build your own application security program

Laura Bell

Practical Clean Architecture with .NET 7

Jason Taylor

Practical Messaging

Ian Cooper

Developing with C#

Filip Ekberg

Building Modern Apps with GraphQL in ASP.NET Core 7 and React 18

Michael Staib

Martin Artola

From Zero to Hero: Effective testing in C#

Nick Chapsas