Maintainable Tests while maintaining Sanity
summary
Concrete recipe for getting broken specs green: configure TestBed from zero to hero by declaring the component, mocking dependencies in providers, and mocking child components instead of using NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA is an anti-pattern. Use ng-mocks (mockProvider/mockDeclaration), overrideComponent to replace component-scoped providers, and use rxjs.empty for observable properties. Workflow aims for an 80/20/10 split—80% happy path fixes, 20% harder overrides, 10% design changes for long-term testability.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:06About me
- 7:44Emergency
- 9:57Mocking
- 11:35Problems
- 13:32General advice
- 15:11Empty as mock
- 17:31Antipattern
- 19:22Resources
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