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Learning Ionic, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
Book Image

Learning Ionic, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

Ionic makes it incredibly easy to build beautiful and interactive mobile apps using HTML5, SCSS, and Angular. Ionic also makes app development easier, faster, and more fun. This hands-on guide will help you understand the Ionic framework and how you can leverage it to create amazing real-time applications. We begin by covering the essential features of Angular 2, and then dive straight into how Ionic fits in today’s world of hybrid app development and give you a better understanding of the mobile hybrid architecture along the way. Further on, you will learn how to work with Ionic decorators, services, and components, which will allow you to build complex apps using the Ionic framework. We will take a look at theming Ionic apps using the built-in SCSS setup. After that, we will explore Ionic Native, and you will learn how to integrate device-specific features, such as notifications, with the Ionic app. To complete our learning, we will be building a Rider app, using Ionic and Uber API, to book a ride. Next, you will learn how to unit test, end-to-end test, monkey test, and execute device testing on AWS Device farm. Then, we will take a look at migrating the existing Ionic 1 apps to Ionic 2 and deploy them to the App Store. The final chapter on Ionic 3 wraps up this book by explaining the new features of Ionic 3 at the time of writing this book. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop, deploy, and manage hybrid mobile applications built with Cordova, Ionic, and Angular. All the examples in this book are valid for both Ionic 2 and Ionic 3.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Testing methodologies

In the world of app development, there are two ways in which testing comes into the app development life cycle. One is the more traditional way where the development happens first and then test runs are designed and executed based on the requirements. The other and more effective way is to adopt Test Driven Development (TDD). Over a period of time, TDD has proven to produce a more bug-free way of developing apps. You can read more about TDD here: http://agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html.

The by-product of TDD is Behavioural Driven Testing (BDT). BDT revolves more around behavior testing than requirement testing. A good combination of unit testing and automation testing with BDT would yield an excellent product with minimal bugs. Since BDT involves more user-centric testing, one can easily discover issues that the end user might encounter during the testing phase itself.

In this chapter, we are...