Building a Web App Guided By Tests
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Building a Web App Guided By Tests

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

About the Author

Greg Stewart
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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Conventions
    • What we will be building
    • How we will build it
    • What you will need
  • Getting started
    • Setting up our project
    • Recap
  • Writing our first functional test
    • Web server: Express
    • Cucumber, WebDriver and Selenium
    • Our first test
    • Recap
  • Continuous delivery
    • Setting up our Continuous Integration environment using Codeship
    • Setting up Continous Deployment to Heroku
    • Recap
  • Refactoring our build file
    • Extending our build file by linting our code
    • Recap
  • Building our assets
    • Compile our less to css
    • Concatenate and minify our JavaScript
  • 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

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