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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By : Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra
Book Image

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By: Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra

Overview of this book

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia begins with a review of basic JavaScript concepts and the structure of an Aurelia application generated with the Aurelia-CLI tool. You will learn how to create interesting and intuitive application using the Aurelia-Materialize plugin, which implements the material design approach. Once you fully configure a FIFA World Cup 2018 app, you'll start creating the initial components through TDD practices and then develop backend services to process and store all the user data. This book lets you explore the NoSQL model and implement it using one of the most popular NoSQL databases, MongoDB, with some exciting libraries to make the experience effortless. You'll also be able to add some advanced behavior to your components, from managing the lifecycle properly to using dynamic binding, field validations, and the custom service layer. You will integrate your application with Google OAuth Service and learn best practices to secure your applications. Furthermore, you'll write UI Testing scripts to create high-quality Aurelia Apps and explore the most used tools to run end-to-end tests. In the concluding chapters, you'll be able to deploy your application to the Cloud and Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to create rich applications using best practices and modern approaches.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Does our app meet our business requirements? UI testing


Don't be confused, we won't test frontend application functionality. This is already tested with our unit test, so what is really UI testing? Well, it is a very long discussion. We can have many test suites configured to be executed at any time, and this will ensure that our E2E meets the business requirements already programmed. What do we mean by this? Unit and integration testing cannot evaluate all areas of a complete application, specifically the areas related to workflow and usability. Basically, all our automated tests can only verify code that exists. They cannot evaluate functionality that is maybe missing or issues related to visual elements of our application and how easy our product is to use. This is the real value of GUI testing, which is performed from the perspective of a user instead of the practical point of view of the developer. By analyzing an application from a user’s perspective, GUI testing can provide enough...