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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

Communicating through the power of events


Angular has more powerful event-handling capabilities compared to Angular 1.x. Angular 1.x has two-way data binding, whereas Angular doesn't recommend that. Angular handles the communication between data and templates through the power of events.

Angular projects stand on the combination of some components. To function, these components need to communicate with each other to share data and events. Mostly, components need to communicate when they have a parent-child relationship. There are a few ways in which Angular can communicate between parent and child components. The best is by handling custom events. We will look at details about custom events and see how they work with our search application.

Angular events

As we know, Angular recommends one-way data binding, which means only from components to DOM elements. This is unidirectional data flow, and it is how Angular works. What about when we need data flow in the other direction--from DOM elements...