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C# Unit Testing in C# Test Driven Development TDD

evanpavan
evanpavan
5,025 Points

Struggling with the code challenge.

I'm having a tough time in the first exercise of the code challenge stubbing out the actual classes from the given tests.

Right now I'm getting a compilation error that my constructor can't have the same name as it's enclosing class.

Calculator.cs
public class Calculator
{
    public double intialValue;

    //constructor related to the Initialization test method
    public double Calculator(double x)
    {
        intialValue = x;
    }

    //adding method related to the BasicAdd method
    public double Add(double y)
    {
        //adding adds the value passed to the add method to the value the calculator was initialized with
        double total;
        total = y + initialValue;
        return total;        
    }
}
CalculatorTests.cs
using Xunit;

public class CalculatorTests
{
    [Fact]
    public void Initialization()
    {
        var expected = 1.1;
        var target = new Calculator(1.1);
        Assert.Equal(expected, target.Result, 1);
    }

    [Fact]
    public void BasicAdd()
    {
        var target = new Calculator(1.1);
        target.Add(2.2);
        var expected = 3.3;
        Assert.Equal(expected, target.Result, 1);
    }
}
evanpavan
evanpavan
5,025 Points

Steven Parker I've recreated the question with my code. Thanks for the tips of this.

Remove the return type on your constructor.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

I see three issues:

  • "initialValue" is spelled "intialValue" in two places
  • constructors should not have a return type (not even "void")
  • the class to be tested must have a "Result" property or field