59 ngAir - Angular 2 testing using Protractor 2C Karma and more with Julie Ralph

Angular 2 testing using Protractor, Karma and more withJulie Ralph Panelists: PatrickJS, Ed Conolly Guests: Julie RalphOutline Background Testing landscape Firstquestion...Jasmine or Mocha? j/k Seriously, though, give us a layout of the testinglandscape. What are the major tools/libraries involved in testing an Angular 2web app? When do you use Karma vs Protractor How has the landscape evolved over theyears? What is new with the latest Karma and Protractor? New world of JavaScript How doyou deal with the build process and testing? Webpackor System offer advantages for testing? Are thereare special features in Karma or Protractor for Angular 2? Testing as a discipline How doyou get developers to actually write tests? Why don’tdevelopers write tests? How doyou maintain discipline over time? Generalguidelines for testing to follow? Anythoughts or experiences with BDD / CucumberJS and protractor? Testing strategy When doyou use unit tests vs integration tests vs e2e (and server vs browser) MockedAPIs vs Real APIs, should my protractor tests really be e2e? Other frameworks What doyou think of AVA? https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava Future What doesthe future hold for testing?Tips & Picks PatrickJS Zone.js0.6.x https://github.com/angular/zone.js/ How toTest RxJS http://staltz.com/how-to-debug-rxjs-code.html Chaos Monkey http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html Gremlins.jshttps://github.com/marmelab/gremlins.js Jeff Whelpley StraightOutta Compton With latest TypeScript, you may not need Webpack https://medium.com/@vivainio/with-latest-typescript-you-may-not-need-webpack-417d2ef0e773#.2z0xbjndi Ng2 testseed https://github.com/juliemr/ng2-test-seed Web Workers and Service Works by Gleb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4axZ3D75Llg&list=UU_DH6Z_K_3JRgOdDnwHLrLw Ed Instanttest feedback in your IDE - http://wallabyjs.com/ ConfigurableAPI responses - https://github.com/wongatech/angular-multimocks AngularConnectScholarships / CFP Julie Angularmaterial is alpha: https://github.com/angular/material2 Niftyproject website from Seattle Times: http://projects.seattletimes.com/2016/elwha/ Juliepromises to update ng2-test-seed today :)