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Discussion on: TDD in Angular - Dependency Injection and Mocking

 
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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen • Edited

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When I tried that, I really didn't know how to start. I first needed to play around with material components, learn how they work, what there interfaces are... So I couldn't really write a Cypress test before because I din't know what HTML element I should select for expectations...

This is one of the issues that component harnesses address. You'd have to implement a HarnessEnvironment for Cypress though.

mapping a backend model (which is returned by an angular service) to a component model that contains all and only the information in appropriate data format that it can be used in templates.

There are many ways to approach this. I prefer creating input properties with data types that are the most convenient for presentational components and then doing mapping either in container components or services used by container components.

We can then easily test the mapping in isolated unit tests and there's less business logic in our presentational components.