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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

Recap of the application behavior


Let's look at a quick overview of the search application:

  • Our search application invokes the Members component in the DOM. It contains two major parts: the search area and the result area.

  • From the search area, we type a search query and submit it to get the expected result in the result area.

  • The resulting area lists down the member list based on the search query. We may have figured out that we get all the data during the initialization of the Members component; that's because we call the Members component's search() method with ngOnInit(), and it returns all the data as our logic has been set to return all data when no search query is set.

  • By clicking on a member's name, we can see the detailed information about that member on the details page.