The NetCoreTestingUtilities library provides supplementary tools for .NET Core 3 unit and integration testing. The library is divided into three main functional areas:
- Extensions provides methods for generating JSON from objects; performing deep, but flexible comparisons of objects; for providing side-by-side comparisons of actual and expected values during testing; and for extracting objects and status codes from ActionResult and IActionResult.
- TestJsonAttribute -- which enables test input parameters and expected results to be retrieved from database records (in an efficient way) and populated as Xunit test cases. The TestJsonAttribute allows developers to follow a standardardized, but flexible organization for test records.
- Jxml-- which provides methods for translating between JSON and JXML -- a flavor of XML that includes special processing instructions, as well as generic elements and attributes, for ensuring the full recovery of a JSON document from XML. In addition to the classes for translating between XML and JSON, there are classes for sorting and filtering json records.