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Rapid Application Development with AWS Amplify

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207233
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Adrian Leung Adrian Leung
Profile icon Adrian Leung

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Ready
2. Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Amplify CLI and Amplify Console 3. Chapter 2: Creating a React App with AmplifyJS and TypeScript 4. Section 2: Building a Photo Sharing App
5. Chapter 3: Pluggable Amplify UI Components 6. Chapter 4: User Management with Amplify Authentication 7. Chapter 5: Creating a Blog Post with Amplify GraphQL 8. Chapter 6: Uploading and Sharing Photos with Amplify Storage 9. Section 3: Production Readiness
10. Chapter 7: Setting Up an Amplify Pipeline 11. Chapter 8: Test Automation with Cypress 12. Chapter 9: Setting Up a Custom Domain Name and the Amplify Admin UI 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing test cases as step definitions with TypeScript

In this section, we will show you how to create step definitions to fulfil the feature file that we created in the previous section. A step definition is the actual implementation of the executable Specification by Examples. This means that we have the User Story in plain English so that both the business and technical teams will understand it. Then, we fulfil it with the code of the actual app and ensure that each step of the test case will pass each user scenario. The recommended procedure for BDD would be as follows:

  1. Come up with a User Story with Specification by Examples (SBE) first.
  2. The development team will pick up the executable specification and run it. The console will tell you that there is a failed test case that we need to implement for the step definitions.
  3. Write some code for the actual app that can pass the test case.
  4. Write the step definitions and rerun the tests.
  5. Refactor the code of the...
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