18 Dec Easy Angular Testing – UI Elements – Data Tables
Material Datatables give us an easy way to present structured data. In this post, we'll take a dive into testing the mat-table component's content....
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09 Dec Easy Angular Testing – UI Elements – Dialog
The Material Dialog gives us an intrusive way to let a user know something important happened, or will happen. In this post, we'll take a dive into testing the mat-dialog component's content....
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....
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
In this post we discuss the very basics of a routerlink test. With this we remove any routerlink errors, and set ourselves up to do some meaningful testing....