A Beginner’s Guide to Unit Testing in Angular Projects

Ayyaz Zafar
1 min readDec 8, 2024

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A Beginner’s Guide to Unit Testing in Angular Projects

Unit testing is a crucial aspect of modern web development that helps ensure your application’s reliability and maintainability. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore how to implement effective unit testing in Angular projects using the Jasmine framework.

What You’ll Learn

  • Understanding the benefits of unit testing
  • Setting up and running tests using ‘ng test’
  • Writing effective test cases
  • Working with spec files
  • Component testing strategies
  • Using spies for service function mocking
  • Handling error scenarios

Video Timeline Breakdown

  • Introduction to unit testing benefits (00:00:00)
  • Running unit tests using ‘ng test’ (00:03:47)
  • Monitoring unit testing progress (00:06:01)
  • Failure and correction demonstrations (00:11:08)
  • Spec files structure explanation (00:16:10)
  • Component testing setup (00:18:21)
  • Writing component function tests (00:28:06)
  • Service function mocking with spies (00:37:30)
  • Error scenario testing (00:51:07)

to get a detailed walkthrough of implementing unit testing in your Angular projects. The tutorial includes practical examples and best practices that will help you write more reliable and maintainable code.

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Originally published at on December 8, 2024.

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Ayyaz Zafar
Ayyaz Zafar

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