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Angular Test-Driven Development - Second Edition

By : Md. Ziaul Haq
Book Image

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

The choice is ours


As we have seen, there are a lot of toolsets and frameworks for testing JavaScript projects:

  • For the assertion framework, we will go with Jasmine as Angular itself uses Jasmine as assertions; but in some cases, mostly for Node.js projects, Mocha is fun as well

  • As long as we focus on the automated test suite, the test runner is of most importance to us, and nothing can be compared to Karma when it's about an Angular project

  • For end-to-end testing, Protractor is the best framework, and we will use that in this chapter.

  • As long as it's end-to-end testing, it must be automated, and Selenium is here to automate the browser for us.

  • It's important to run tests as cross-browser support, and PhantomJS is here for us to serve as a headless browser.