Create a Component Harness For Your Tests With Angular CDK

Learn how to create and consume a custom component harness using Angular CDK. With a step-by-step case study, we run it in unit tests and end-to-end tests.

Updated for Angular CDK and Angular Material version 9.2.

A component harness is a testing API around an Angular directive or component. Component harnesses can be shared between unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. They result in less brittle tests as implementation details are hidden from test suites.

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Create a Component Harness For Your Tests With Angular CDK

Learn how to create and consume a custom component harness using Angular CDK. With a step-by-step case study, we run it in unit tests and end-to-end tests.

Updated for Angular CDK and Angular Material version 9.2.

A component harness is a testing API around an Angular directive or component. Component harnesses can be shared between unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. They result in less brittle tests as implementation details are hidden from test suites.

#angular #angular-cdk #component-harnesses #testing #angular-material

Install Angular - Angular Environment Setup Process

Angular is a TypeScript based framework that works in synchronization with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. To work with angular, domain knowledge of these 3 is required.

1. Installing Node.js and npm
2. Installing Angular CLI
3. Creating workspace
4. Deploying your First App

In this article, you will get to know about the Angular Environment setup process. After reading this article, you will be able to install, setup, create, and launch your own application in Angular. So let’s start!!!

Install Angular in Easy Steps

For Installing Angular on your Machine, there are 2 prerequisites:

• Node.js
• npm Package Manager

Node.js

First you need to have Node.js installed as Angular require current, active LTS or maintenance LTS version of Node.js

Download and Install Node.js version suitable for your machine’s operating system.

Npm Package Manager

Angular, Angular CLI and Angular applications are dependent on npm packages. By installing Node.js, you have automatically installed the npm Package manager which will be the base for installing angular in your system. To check the presence of npm client and Angular version check of npm client, run this command:

1. npm -v

Installing Angular CLI

• Open Terminal/Command Prompt
• To install Angular CLI, run the below command:

1. npm install -g @angular/cli

· After executing the command, Angular CLI will get installed within some time. You can check it using the following command

1. ng --version

Workspace Creation

Now as your Angular CLI is installed, you need to create a workspace to work upon your application. Methods for it are:

• Using CLI
• Using Visual Studio Code

1. Using CLI

To create a workspace:

• Navigate to the desired directory where you want to create your workspace using cd command in the Terminal/Command prompt
• Then in the directory write this command on your terminal and provide the name of the app which you want to create. In my case I have mentioned DataFlair:

1. Ng new YourAppName

• After running this command, it will prompt you to select from various options about the CSS and other functionalities.

• To leave everything to default, simply press the Enter or the Return key.

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Wondering how to upgrade your skills in the pandemic? Here's a simple way you can do it.

Corona Virus Pandemic has brought the world to a standstill.

Countries are on a major lockdown. Schools, colleges, theatres, gym, clubs, and all other public places are shut down, the country’s economy is suffering, human health is on stake, people are losing their jobs and nobody knows how worse it can get.

Since most of the places are on lockdown, and you are working from home or have enough time to nourish your skills, then you should use this time wisely! We always complain that we want some ‘time’ to learn and upgrade our knowledge but don’t get it due to our ‘busy schedules’. So, now is the time to make a ‘list of skills’ and learn and upgrade your skills at home!

And for the technology-loving people like us, Knoldus Techhub has already helped us a lot in doing it in a short span of time!

If you are still not aware of it, don’t worry as Georgia Byng has well said,

“No time is better than the present”

– Georgia Byng, a British children’s writer, illustrator, actress and film producer.

No matter if you are a developer (be it front-end or back-end) or a data scientist, tester, or a DevOps person, or, a learner who has a keen interest in technology, Knoldus Techhub has brought it all for you under one common roof.

From technologies like Scala, spark, elastic-search to angular, go, machine learning, it has a total of 20 technologies with some recently added ones i.e. DAML, test automation, snowflake, and ionic.

How to upgrade your skills?

Every technology in Tech-hub has n number of templates. Once you click on any specific technology you’ll be able to see all the templates of that technology. Since these templates are downloadable, you need to provide your email to get the template downloadable link in your mail.

These templates helps you learn the practical implementation of a topic with so much of ease. Using these templates you can learn and kick-start your development in no time.

Apart from your learning, there are some out of the box templates, that can help provide the solution to your business problem that has all the basic dependencies/ implementations already plugged in. Tech hub names these templates as xlr8rs (pronounced as accelerators).

xlr8rs make your development real fast by just adding your core business logic to the template.

If you are looking for a template that’s not available, you can also request a template may be for learning or requesting for a solution to your business problem and tech-hub will connect with you to provide you the solution. Isn’t this helpful 🙂

Confused with which technology to start with?

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Since we believe:

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If you still feel like it isn’t helping you in learning and development, you can provide your feedback in the feedback section in the bottom right corner of the website.

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Basic Introduction to Unit Testing in Angular

What is Unit Testing?

Unit testing is testing a unit in an isolated environment. A unit can be a class, component, service, directive module, etc. which can be logically separated from the software. Any unit in an app is not isolated, it’s quite normal that it will be depending on the other units in an application for resources like data or methods.

So if we do an integrated test of the application and it fails then it’s hard to identify where exactly the code is breaking. So the purpose of unit testing is to test each unit individually and see if it’s working fine.

Benefits of Unit Testing

Reveal design mistakes

You may encounter difficulty while writing tests which might reveal that the design is not correct and you may be violating some important coding principles. Or after running the test it shows unexpected behavior.

Add new features without breaking anything

If you add any new feature into existing code and after running test passes then you can be confident it won’t break the application.

Simplifies debugging process

As discussed earlier it makes it easy to exactly identify where the code is breaking.

Tests make developers more confident about their work

So, we will understand unit testing in angular by looking at some basic simple examples and then getting to know why and how we have done.

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Testing Angular Routing Components with the RouterTestingModule

This article teaches us about shallow and integrated routing component tests. The RouterTestingModule is useful for integrated routing component tests. To learn what the RouterTestingModule does, we discuss the Location service and its dependencies.

One of the use cases for Angular’s RouterTestingModule is to test Angular routing components.

An Angular routing component is a component that is used to trigger application navigation. It could be a navigation menu component, a component with one or more RouterLink directives, or it could be a component that calls Router#navigate or Router#navigatebyUrl.

In this article, we’re going to explore what the RouterTestingModule does and how we can use it to test routing components.

Figure 1. The show hero detail use case.

As a case study, we write routing component tests for the DashboardComponent from the Tour of Heroes tutorial on Angular.io. This routing is part of the show hero detail use case as shown in Figure 1:

1. The user clicks a top hero in the dashboard.
2. The application navigates to the hero detail.

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**Angular’s ****RouterTestingModule**#

To learn what Angular’s RouterTestingModule does, we first have to learn about Angular’s Location service, its dependencies and how it’s related to the Angular router.

What does Angular’s **Location** service do?#

Figure 2 illustrates the flow of dependencies from the Router service through the Location service and all of its dependencies all the way down to the browser APIs.

Figure 2. The dependency hierarchy from the Router service through the Location service and to the browser APIs.

The dark box names the the dependency injection symbol. The inner light box names the dependency that is provided when using the BrowserModule and RouterModule Angular modules.

The Router service subscribes to the @angular/common package’s PopStateEvents which have the interface listed in Listing 1. It uses the Location service to be notified of these events.

interface PopStateEvent {
  pop?: boolean;
  state?: any;
  type?: string;
  url?: string;
}
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Listing 1. The PopStateEvent interface from @angular/common.

A PopStateEvent wraps a native popstate or hashchange browser event and enriches it with metadata that the Angular router uses to identify which route to activate.

When Router#navigate or Router#navigateByUrl is called or a RouterLink directive is activated, the router figures out which route to activate and uses the Location service to replace the browser’s history state stack.

From Figure 2 we can tell that the Location service itself delegates work to other Angular services. The concrete LocationStrategy services are used to decide between path- or hash-based navigation. The concrete PlatformLocation interacts with browser APIs to query parts of the URL through the Location API or listen for history stack state changes or hash changes through the History API.

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