Testing Angular Applications Covers Angular 2

Summary

Testing Angular Applications is an example-rich, hands-on guide that gives you the real-world techniques you need to thoroughly test all parts of your Angular applications. By the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently write unit and end-to-end tests for Angular applications in TypeScript.

Foreword by Brad Green, Google.

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About the Technology

Don't leave the success of your mission-critical Angular apps to chance. Proper testing improves code quality, reduces maintenance costs, and rewards you with happy users. New tools and best practices can streamline and automate all aspects of testing web apps, both in development and in production. This book gets you started.

About the Book

Testing Angular Applications teaches you how to make testing an essential part of your development and production processes. You'll start by setting up a simple unit testing system as you learn the fundamental practices. Then, you'll fine-tune it as you discover the best tests for Angular components, directives, pipes, services, and routing. Finally, you'll explore end-to-end testing, mastering the Protractor framework, and inserting Angular apps into your continuous integration pipeline.

What's inside

• Getting to know TypeScript
• Writing and debugging unit tests
• Writing and debugging end-to-end tests with Protractor
• Building continuous integration for your entire test suite

1. Introduction to testing Angular applications

   PART 1 - Unit testing

2. Creating your first tests
3. Testing components
4. Testing directives
5. Testing pipes
6. Testing services
7. Testing the router

PART 2 - End-to-end testing

8. Getting started with Protractor
9. Understanding timeouts
10. Advanced Protractor topics

PART 3 - Continuous integration

11. Continuous integration

• Appendix A - Setting up the sample project
• Appendix B - Additional resources