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Session 1: Techniques and practices for testing Angular 2 with Duncan Hunter and Adam Stephensen
Writing frontend tests has always been hard, let us show you how to make testing easier in your Angular 2 applications.
From unit testing components and services to end-to-end testing your entire application, we will give you tips and techniques for testing in Angular 2.
This session will de-mystify Angular 2, highlight the lessons we wish we hadn’t had to learn the hard way. We will teach you what you need to know but aren’t going to find out until you are too far into your project to turn around. You will learn the pitfalls to avoid when building Angular 2 in production.

Session 2: Identity Server 4 with Angular 2 ASP.NET core with Ben Cull

API first websites are hugely popular thanks to client heavy frameworks like Angular. Securing them properly has always been a challenge, especially if you want to expose your API to third party developers. This is a demo heavy talk with practical implementations of Identity Server 4 in an ASP.NET Core app as a token server, Entity Framework and ASP.NET Identity for security, ASP.NET Core MVC for an API and an Angular 2 SPA application.

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About the speakers

SSW Team

Adam Stephensen is a Solution Architect at SSW with a decade of experience performing needs analysis, designing and building scaleable, database-driven, distributed enterprise solutions incorporating web and windows interfaces.

Duncan Hunter a software architect at SSW. Making sustainable software that solves real world issues is what makes Duncan tick. He is a full stack web developer specialising in making responsive frontend applications with AngularJS and TypeScript.

SSW Solution Architect, Ben Cull builds web applications that are lightning fast and dressed to impress. Having such a strong background in C# and SQL Server also allows him to create complex systems that run behind the scenes. In his spare time you'll find him having a cold beer and tinkering with the latest technologies.

Ben is the Co-Founder of TBODA, a group of 4 QUT graduates who create cool new web apps for fun. Specialties: Web Development, Websites, Web Applications, Software as a Service

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