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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

Installing Karma


It's time to start using Karma. Installations and applications are constantly changing. The following guide is intended to be brief; you can go to the Karma website at http://karma-runner.github.io/ and find the latest instructions there.

The main focus of this section will be the specific configuration used in this book and not an in-depth installation guide.

Installation prerequisites

To install Karma, we will need to have Node.js on our computer. Node.js runs on Google's V8 engine and allows JavaScript to be run on several operating systems.

Developers can publish node applications and modules using NPM (Node Package Manager). NPM allows developers to quickly integrate applications and modules into their applications.

Karma runs and is installed through the npm package; therefore, we need Node.js before we can use or install Karma. To install Node.js, go to http://nodejs.org/ and follow the installation instructions.

Once we have Node.js installed, lets type the following command...