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Introduction
- Conventions
- What we will be building
- How we will build it
- What you will need
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Getting started
- Setting up our project
- Recap
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Writing our first functional test
- Web server: Express
- Cucumber, WebDriver and Selenium
- Our first test
- Recap
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Continuous delivery
- Setting up our Continuous Integration environment using Codeship
- Setting up Continous Deployment to Heroku
- Recap
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Refactoring our build file
- Extending our build file by linting our code
- Recap
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Building our assets
- Compile our less to css
- Concatenate and minify our JavaScript
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Unit tests
- Setting up our unit test runner using karma
- Writing and running our first unit test
- Running our tests as part of the build
- Continuously running our tests
- Adding code coverage
- Linting as part of the build
- Recap
Building a Web App Guided By Tests
About
About the Book
The book aims to take you through creating a basic app, using testing and continuous delivery as the guiding principle. Here's a rough list of the sections you can find the book:
- Introduction
- What we will be building
- How we will build it
- What you will need
- Services you wil need to sign up for
- Code editor
- Version control: Git
- Node.js and NPM
- Grunt
- Getting started
- Setting up our project
- Writing our first functional test
- Web server: Express
- Cucumber, WebDriver and Selenium
- Using Grunt to automate the starting of services
- Our first (feature) test
Feedback
Author
About the Author
Greg Stewart
Greg Stewart is the author of the soon to be published Building A Web App Guided By Tests way and has been working with technology and people on many continents. A few years back he was introduced to agile and which completely transformed his outlook to software development and project delivery. You can follow him and his musings at www.tcias.co.uk.
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Table of Contents
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