28 Nov Easy Angular Testing – UI Elements – Lists
In this post, we're looking to expand our coding chops by understanding how to test the Material List component. A useful tool for displaying continuous groups of data....
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16 Nov Easy Angular Testing – UI Elements – Snackbar
In our post, we're exploring the Material Snackbar, a "non-interactive" element for displaying non-intrusive notifications....
25 Oct Easy Angular Testing – UI Elements – Tooltips
In this post, we're looking into the Material Tooltip, a useful component for giving direction to users without taking up screen real estate....
03 Oct Easy Angular Testing – Services
Services are the core of any good application. They help connect your application's business logic to the data it needs to operate. Whether it's from module to module, or component to web API, services help to insulate your application from potentially breaking data or...
27 Sep Installing PDFTOTEXT through PIP on Windows 10
Edit: 1/24/2020 - As of the v2.1.3 release, the Windows install has become much easier! The below assumes you already have Anaconda installed. Navigate in a browser to http://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads. Under the Tools for Visual Studio 2019 tab download the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019. You'll...
20 Sep Easy Angular Testing – Spies
Sometimes stubbing is not enough. When testing we will, at times, need to understand more deeply how a System Under Test (SUT) calls a dependency. When this happens, we turn to spies. As Martin Fowler defines spies - Spies are stubs that also record some information based...
09 Sep Easy Angular Testing – Stubbing Components
Angular components, in my view, are everything. As the Angular documentation team puts it - Components are the most basic UI building block of an Angular app.https://angular.io/api/core/Component Components help to manage the lifecycle of a view in Angular. They coordinate the passing of information in an...
03 Sep Easy Angular Testing – RouterLink
The Angular RouterLink lets you link to specific routes in your app. In the example below, we're setting ourselves up to write some very basic tests. Once we have the basics in place, we can wire up more code for deeper testing. The basic code...
27 Aug Easy Angular Testing – ActivatedRoute
Recently I was giving a tutorial on Angular to a friend. In the conversation we landed on the area of testing, one of my favorites. We had written some code together and I spoke a bit about the importance of testing and TDD. As...
23 Mar Your SLA is bullshit
A discussion on how external factors affect our Service Level Agreements, and how we might manage bringing our SLAs into reality....