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Mastering Angular Test-Driven Development

You're reading from   Mastering Angular Test-Driven Development Build high-quality Angular apps with step-by-step instructions and practical examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805126089
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ezéchiel Amen AGBLA Ezéchiel Amen AGBLA
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Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Test-Driven Development in Angular FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Taking Your First Steps with TDD 3. Chapter 2: Using Jasmine and Karma to Test Angular Applications 4. Part 2: Writing Effective Unit Tests
5. Chapter 3: Writing Effective Unit Tests for Angular Components, Services, and Directives 6. Chapter 4: Mocking and Stubbing Dependencies in Angular Tests 7. Chapter 5: Testing Angular Pipes, Forms, and Reactive Programming 8. Part 3: End-to-End Testing
9. Chapter 6: Exploring End-to-End Testing with Protractor, Cypress, and Playwright 10. Chapter 7: Understanding Cypress and its Role in End-to-End Tests for Web Applications 11. Chapter 8: Writing Effective End-to-End Component Tests with Cypress 12. Part 4: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for Angular Applications
13. Chapter 9: Understanding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) 14. Chapter 10: Best Practices and Patterns for Angular TDD 15. Chapter 11: Refactoring and Improving Angular Code through TDD 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring different files related to writing tests

Now that we’ve created the Angular project, we will explore the different files related to writing tests in Angular. I will provide insights into their role and best practices for working with them. Let’s get started.

*.spec.ts files

*.spec.ts files contain the actual test cases that will be run against your code. These files are the backbone of testing in Angular as they define the individual test cases that will ensure your code works as expected. The name of the file should match the name of the file being tested, and it should be located in the same directory as the file being tested. The tests in these files are organized into test suites, which are defined using the describe() function. Each test case is defined using the it() function. For example, if you were testing a component named MyComponent, you would create a file named my-component.spec.ts and define the test cases for that component within that...

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