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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

Summary


This chapter showed us how to use TDD to build an Angular application. The approach, up to this point, has focused on the specification from a user perspective and using TDD with a top-down approach. This technique helps us get usable and small components tested and completed for the users.

As applications grow, so does their complexity. In the next chapter, we will explore the bottom-up approach and see when to use that technique over the top-down approach.

This chapter showed us how TDD can be used to develop a component-based application with navigation by routers. Routes allow us to get a nice separation of our components and views. We looked at the usage of several Protractor locators, from CSS to repeaters, link text, and inner locators. Besides using Protractor, we also learned how to configure Karma with a headless browser, and we got to see it in action.