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In Wellington AngularJS meetup , I gave a talk on using protractor for end to end testing of angularJS applications . Here I presented and demonstrated some best practices with a live demo on how to get started with using protractor for e2e testing. My presentation and demonstration application are both available online. Links are as below: My presentation My demo angular app for demonstrating some best practices like page objects, reporting, login etc.

Hi All, To share my knowledge and experience in testing AngularJS apps, I am presenting on using Protractor for end-to-end testing of AngularJS applications at the Wellington AngularJS meetup. If you are planning or already using AngularJS for your front-end development and interested to know some best practices for the end to end testing of web apps, do RSVP to this event . Cheers!!

Xcode 7 has introduced new UI testing features fully integrated into the IDE. I learned about the new APIs and how UI testing fits in with existing testing features in Xcode. Also got to see how to get started by recording your app, and how to efficiently craft and maintain UI tests. check this link introducing this API and UI testing tool in WWDC/2015 Though this tool is in beta stage, IT industry has taken this as a tool for future UI testing for apple apps and have started using it already. I came across another good article related to this. It summarizes the WWDC 2015 UI Testing talk and gives the detail of coming beta releases as well. Check it out here

Sublime Text is a great application for just about any developer to have in their toolbox. It's a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance. It is basically a cross platform, highly customizable, advanced text editor and sits nicely between full featured IDEs (which are notoriously resource hungry) and command line editors such Vim or Emacs (which have steep learning curves). One of the things that makes Sublime so great is its extensible plugin architecture. This makes it easy for developers to extend Sublime’s core functionality with new features such as code completion, or the embedding of remote API documentation. Sublime Text doesn’t come with plugins enabled out of the box — they are typically installed through a 3rd party package manager simply called Package Control . To install Package Control in Sublime Text, please follow the installation guide on their website . ...

The development of Angular 2 is on its way with much talk, hype, and fanfare. Surprisingly, there is not much being said about unit testing. As a responsible developer, you have undoubtedly already written a giant unit test suite to achieve ‘near perfect’ code coverage, and I'm here to let you know, there is no need to throw that all away! While Angular 2 is currently in ‘developer preview’, implying that nothing serious should be built with it currently, the Angular Team has already created a giant wealth of unit tests and a custom testing setup: (https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/master/modules/angular2/test). Unfortunately, it is not easy to set this up for yourself. So this post should help you get started. link to full post here

Firstly, what are Page Objects? Here is a definition from the Selenium team: Page Object is a Design Pattern which has become popular in test automation for enhancing test maintenance and reducing code duplication. A page object is an object-oriented class that serves as an interface to a page of your AUT. The tests then use the methods of this page object class whenever they need to interact with that page of the UI. The benefit is that if the UI changes for the page, the tests themselves don’t need to change, only the code within the page object needs to change. Subsequently all changes to support that new UI are located in one place. Using Page objects in test cases has been very useful. It will feel hard and time consuming initially but, once you have all page objects up and running. Its going be a smooth ride . Till now writing test cases for an Angular Apps has been smooth ride. Thanks to some good articles online to get me going. I have found some very helpful resour...

Lately, I have been working on setting up the testing framework and writing test cases for angular apps. I am using Karma-Jasmine framework for unit testing. And for end-to-end testing, am using another testing framework called Protractor. I like to follow best practices while using any technology. It will feel hard initially but, you will find the its usefulness as you come across complex scenarios. Till now writing test cases for an Angular Apps has been smooth ride. Thanks to some good articles online to get me going. I have found some very helpful resources, which talks about unit testing and end-to-end testing which, I would like to share with other peps... Enjoy.. Unit testing AngularJS applications AngularJS: Developer Guide: Unit Testing Using Protractor: Writing end-to-end tests has never been so fun. Protractor - end to end testing for AngularJS