Hi, Joe,

I strongly agree with this article!

In fact I've got both an alternative approach and a tool to automate a lot of the boilerplate:

- tool is SCuri - https://www.npmjs.com/package/scuri

- approach described in https://medium.com/ng-gotchas/an-opinionated-approach-to-testing-angular-4cf14ef7463f

-https://medium.com/angular-in-depth/angular-testbed-considered-harmful-3f91f647d1fd