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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805126089

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Typescript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Ezéchiel Amen AGBLA

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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