JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for AngularJS. The official version is built on Node.js and Selenium WebDriverJS.

There is currently no way to integrate Protractor tests into Test Explorer (that I know of).

Thankfully there is Protractor.NET, a .NET port of Protractor built on top of Selenium WebDriver for .NET. It allows us to write Angular UI tests using .NET testing frameworks such as NUnit, and arguably produces more readable tests because there’s no need to use promises.

BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) and TDD ( Test Driven Development) has become cornerstone for modern Javascript app development but adopting these development strategies to SharePoint/Office 365 is not a trivial task.

Few weeks back I was intrigued to discover #Protractor, an AngularJS testing framework. With client side MVC/MVVM frameworks getting popular among the developers, AngularJS is the premier framework to develop Office365/SharePoint 2013 apps. Integrating TDD methodologies to app development model will help developers to deliver maintainable, flexible and extensible solutions and interfaces.

This presentation includes training videos to

1) Create AngularJS based SharePoint apps

2) Configuring NodeJS project for testing of AngularJS apps

3) Writing test specs using #Jasmine

4) End to end testing using #protractor

5) Links to online resources