Testing Angular Applications with Cypress Workshop

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WORKSHOP SETUP

Please complete the following steps to prepare for the workshop. It may take a few minutes to install all the dependencies on your system.

System Requirements

Please check the Cypress system requirements here to ensure you have all the dependencies needed.

Additionally, you'll need the following:

• An IDE or Code Editor (VS Code recommended)
• NPM or Yarn (Yarn recommended)
• Angular CLI (recommended, not required)

Installation

1. Clone the repository locally. Make sure you are on the starter branch.
2. Run yarn install or npm install in the project directory.
3. If you have the Angular CLI installed, run ng serve. Otherwise, run yarn run start to start the dev server. Confirm the application runs locally.
4. In a new terminal, run yarn run cypress open or npx cypress open
5. Confirm the Cypress Test Runner opens on your machine. You should see a Graphical User Interface (GUI) like the screenshot below:

6. If the application runs and the Test Runner appears, you are ready for the workshop! You can stop both servers.

APPLICATION

The Application Under Test is a fork of gothinkster/angular-realworld-example-app.

About

Below is the application description from its README. Check out the repository directly for more details about the application.

Angular codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns, etc) that adheres to the RealWorld spec and API.

Demo

Demo

This codebase was created to demonstrate a fully fledged application built with Angular that interacts with an actual backend server including CRUD operations, authentication, routing, pagination, and more. We've gone to great lengths to adhere to the Angular Styleguide & best practices.

API

For convenience, we have a live API server running at https://conduit.productionready.io/api for the application to make requests against. You can view the API spec here which contains all routes & responses for the server.

Functionality overview

The example application is a social blogging site (i.e. a Medium.com clone) called "Conduit". It uses a custom API for all requests, including authentication. You can view a live demo over at https://angular.realworld.io

General functionality:

• Authenticate users via JWT (login/signup pages + logout button on settings page)
• CRU* users (sign up & settings page - no deleting required)
• CRUD Articles
• CR*D Comments on articles (no updating required)
• GET and display paginated lists of articles
• Favorite articles
• Follow other users

The general page breakdown looks like this:

• Home page (URL: /#/ )
  • List of tags
  • List of articles pulled from either Feed, Global, or by Tag
  • Pagination for list of articles
• Sign in/Sign up pages (URL: /#/login, /#/register )
  • Uses JWT (store the token in localStorage)
  • Authentication can be easily switched to session/cookie based
• Settings page (URL: /#/settings )
• Editor page to create/edit articles (URL: /#/editor, /#/editor/article-slug-here )
• Article page (URL: /#/article/article-slug-here )
  • Delete article button (only shown to article's author)
  • Render markdown from server client side
  • Comments section at bottom of page
  • Delete comment button (only shown to comment's author)
• Profile page (URL: /#/profile/:username, /#/profile/:username/favorites )
  • Show basic user info
  • List of articles populated from author's created articles or author's favorited articles

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

Workshop Slides

This workshop contains seven interactive activities.

You can see potential solutions for these activities by navigating to the various branches:

• Activity One Solution
• Activity Two Solution
• Activity Three Solution
• Activity Four Solution
• Activity Five Solution
• Activity Six Solution
• Activity Seven Solution