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 :)