Panel: 

Joe Eames

Shai Reznik

Alyssa Nicoll

Charles Max Wood

Special Guests: 

Bryan Forbes

In the episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel speaks with Bryan Forbes. Bryan has been working for Sight Pen a consultancy company that works with JavaScript and many others platforms. Bryan mentions that SitePen is well known for their Dojo toolkit. Bryan talks about testing Angular with the intern tool.

Bryan and the panel dive into the testing of all sorts old and new tools and compared them to the Intern Toolkit.  Bryan talks about the different kinds functions that are needed to compile and implement testing. The discussion covers tools like Testacular, karma, Protractor, and Leadfoot, and Intern, as testing kits for Angular.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


What intern a testing tool and how it is used.
Protractor and how this is different as a testing tool
Cross browser testing
Testacular turning in to Karma
Unit testing end to end.
Using typescript
Promise shim
How to bring Intern into your Angular App
Assertion libraries
Intern working with Karma
Intern is client-side product, not a SAAS product
Protractor
Webpak plugin to integrate Intern
End-to-End testing
Leadfoot testing
and much more!


Links: 


SitePen
Bryan Forbes
Leadfoot
Testacular
Karma
Protractor
Bryan’s blog
@bryanforbes
GitHub/Bryan Forbes
 


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Shai


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Alyssa


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Joe


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Charles


Profit First 
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Bryan


Using Intern With Angular 
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Special Guest: Bryan Forbes.