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Flutter for Beginners

You're reading from   Flutter for Beginners An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter and Dart 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996082
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Biessek Alessandro Biessek
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Dart
2. An Introduction to Dart FREE CHAPTER 3. Intermediate Dart Programming 4. An Introduction to Flutter 5. Section 2: The Flutter User Interface - Everything is a Widget
6. Widgets: Building Layouts in Flutter 7. Handling User Input and Gestures 8. Theming and Styling 9. Routing: Navigating between Screens 10. Section 3: Developing Fully Featured Apps
11. Firebase Plugins 12. Developing Your Own Flutter Plugin 13. Accessing Device Features from the Flutter App 14. Platform Views and Map Integration 15. Section 4: Advanced Flutter - Resources to Complex Apps
16. Testing, Debugging, and Deployment 17. Improving User Experience 18. Widget Graphic Manipulations 19. Animations 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing unit testing with Dart

In any language, we can write code that accomplishes some purpose; however, to write performant and bug-free code, we need to use every available resource we can.

Unit tests are one of the things that can help us to write modular, efficient, and bug-free code. The unit test is not the only way of testing code, of course, but it's a crucial part of testing small pieces of software in a manner that isolates it from other parts, helping us to focus on specific things.

Covering all of the application code with unit tests does not guarantee that it's 100% bug-free; however, it helps us to achieve mature code progressively, and this is one of the steps to ensuring a good development cycle, with stable releases from time to time.

Dart also provides some useful tools to work with tests; let's take a look at the starting point of unit testing...

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