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Tests for Signup Form

Tests for Signup Form

Let's update the signup component's tests to add tests for the signup form.

We'll cover the following...

Because we’re testing our component’s functionality, we’ll need to interact with the DOM elements, as we did earlier when we were manually creating users in our browser. To do this, we’ll create a class for our view to give us an easier way to interact with our component.

This is our updated code:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>LetsGetLunch</title>
  <base href="/">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
</head>
<body>
  <app-root></app-root>
</body>
</html>
SignupComponent failing test fixed

Add SignupPage class

Just above MockAuthService, add the following class:

  1. Declare a few variables which correspond to the various elements in the template through the method addPageElements.
  2. Access these using fixture.debugElement.query() to query the various elements within the template using By.css().
  3. Within By.css(), pass in standard
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