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How do I test and mock Standalone Components?

If you prefer the kind of tests that minimize mocking as much as possible, you will be pretty happy with Standalone Components. Gone are the struggles of meticulously picking dependencies from NgModules for your Component under test.

Standalone Components come self-contained. Add them to your TestingModule's `imports` property, and all their "visual elements" – Components, Directives, Pipes, and dependencies – become part of the test. As a nice side-effect, you reach a much higher code coverage.

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Angular Testing in 2023 – Past, Present, and Future

Angular 16 has deprecated Karma and introduced Jest in experimental mode. Does that mean we currently have no stable testing framework? Should we switch to Jest? What's wrong with Karma in the first place?

If you prefer watching a video over reading, that's for you:

In this article, I want to answer these and more questions.

First, let's take a look at the pre-Angular 16 situation. I will cover the differences between Jest and Jasmine and explain the role of Karma. Then we'll dive into Jest and discuss why the current community-based solutions could be more optimal. Finally, we'll look into the future and see what Angular brings to the table. read more

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Protractor is dead, long live Cypress! – Part 1

On 24th April, Angular announced the deprecation of their E2E testing tool protractor. It was unclear if there will be a successor or if Angular delegates this to its users. At the time of this writing, WebDriver.IO, TestCafé and Cypress came up with schematics for the Angular CLI.

In this article, I will provide a short overview over the differences between the various E2E frameworks, argue why you should use Cypress and - in the second part - help you with the first steps.

If you prefer watching over reading, then this recording of my talk is for you: read more