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Angular Test-Driven Development - Second Edition

By : Md. Ziaul Haq
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Angular Test-Driven Development - Second Edition

By: Md. Ziaul Haq

Overview of this book

<p>This is a complete guide that shows you testing techniques with Karma that will help you perform unit testing and end-to-end testing with Protractor. It will show you how to optimize your Angular development process using TDD techniques and ensure your final project is free of bugs. All examples in this book are based on Angular v2 and are compatible with Angular v4.</p> <p>We start by reviewing the TDD life cycle, TDD in the context of JavaScript, and various JavaScript test tools and frameworks. You will see how Karma and Protractor can make your life easier while running JavaScript unit tests. We will enable you to build a test suite for an Angular application and build a testable medium-to-large scale Angular application by handling REST API data.</p> <p>Building on the initial foundational aspects, we move on to testing for multiple classes, partial views, location references, CSS, and the HTML element. In addition, we will explore how to use a headless browser with Karma. We will also configure a Karma file to automate the testing and tackle elements of Angular (components, services, classes, and broadcasting) using TDD.</p> <p>Finally, you will find out how to pull data using an external API, set up and configure Protractor to use a standalone Selenium server, and set up Travis CI and Karma to test your application.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Angular Test-Driven Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 2. Details of JavaScript Testing

Practicing TDD is a great way to get good quality software with satisfactory accuracy, even with fewer people. For web applications, JavaScript has become the most popular scripting language and it has become a challenge to test JavaScript code. Browser-based testing is actually a time killer and is difficult to follow for TDD, but then the solution to this comes with some cool tools that support automated testing for JavaScript. Most web application projects were limited to unit tests only, and without automated test tools, end-to-end tests or functional tests were almost impossible.

A lot of tools and frameworks focusing on JavaScript testing are coming out, which serve different solutions, making developers' lives easy. Besides inventing new JavaScript frameworks, the developer's community invented some tool sets to make testing easy. Like the Angular team, they come with cool tools like Karma. We also have the duplication of testing frameworks...