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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

Advanced setup and configuration


In the previous chapter, we saw a basic and commonly used setup and configuration for Protractor. Here, we will take a look at some advanced configurations that make installation simpler and more powerful.

Installing Protractor globally

Here are the steps to install Protractor globally:

  1. Once Node.js has been installed and is available in command prompt, type the following command to install Protractor globally on the system:

    $ npm install -g protractor
    

    The preceding command uses Node's npm command to install Protractor globally so that we can use Protractor just with the protractor command.

  2. Test whether the Protractor version can be determined as follows:

    $ protractor --version
    

Advanced configuration

In this section, we will be configuring Protractor a bit more using the following steps:

  1. Update the protractor config file to support multiple browsers in a single test suite. The multiCapabilities parameter is an array that takes multiple browserName objects for...