I’m announcing a new live workshop: Angular Testing Workshop. It will be half-day workshops over three days, 100% online, where we will learn all the industry best practices with Angular testing so you can apply them in your daily work – taking straight out of my experience with doing Angular testing for big projects. The …
Cypress has become the preferred way of doing UI testing of Angular apps by many Angular experts. It offers great improvements over Selenium-based testing tools by making the testing experience more like a real user using the built-in retry mechanism of assertions and commands (eg. click on the element), a user-friendly GUI which makes it …
As a consultant, I normally work with companies between 3-12 months at a time and then I am off to the next gig. Most often, I am hired as a “hands-on” coach, were I am called in for an important and urgent project to make stuff happen within a very tight deadline. This requires that …
The main secret behind having better test coverage in an Angular app is to reduce the friction it takes to write tests and enforce test coverage by setting a test coverage threshold to be checked on every commit. NgRx and reactive testing is an area where many people get confused because it seems hard to write …
You probably know it is a good idea to test your Angular Apps because it pays for itself in the form of easier maintenance and fewer errors. As I explained in my guide to Angular testing, unit tests should be the bedrock of your test coverage as they are the cheapest to maintain. Compared to …
All You Need to Know About Mocking in Angular Tests (2020) Read More »
The last couple of months I have been working a lot with DevOps and automation along with Angular development. One of the core principles in Continuous Delivery is having your back covered with automatic testing. Without this automatization in place, you are forced to manually regression test the whole app before every release, which will not …
A central part of testing Angular apps is to be able to automate the end-to-end testing so you don’t manually have to click through the app every time. This sounds reasonable in theory but often end-to-end tests can be fragile and expensive to maintain. When end-to-end tests become flaky they start to become useless: This post covers some …
Life Saving Protractor Utilities to fix flaky end-to-end tests Read More »
When doing practices like continuous delivery and continuous integration, testing becomes a more important part of the work because it’s unreasonable to regression test all possible effects of a release manually. When doing five releases on a workday, you don’t get to do a full manual regression testing on every release as that would easily …
The Complete Guide to Angular Testing and a Weird Trick for Faster Unit Tests (2020) Read More »