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Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development

By : Kerri Shotts
Book Image

Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development

By: Kerri Shotts

Overview of this book

PhoneGap is a useful and flexible tool that enables you to create complex hybrid applications for mobile platforms. In addition to the core technology, there is a large and vibrant community that creates third-party plugins that can take your app to the next level. This book will guide you through the process of creating a complex data-driven hybrid mobile application using PhoneGap, web technologies, and third-party plugins. A good foundation is critical, so you will learn how to create a useful workflow to make development easier. From there, the next version of JavaScript (ES6) and the CSS pre-processor SASS are introduced as a way to simplify creating the look of the mobile application. Responsive design techniques are also covered, including the flexbox layout module. As many apps are data-driven, you'll build an application throughout the course of the book that relies upon IndexedDB and SQLite. You'll also download additional content and address how to handle in-app purchases. Furthermore, you’ll build your own customized plugins for your particular use case. When the app is complete, the book will guide you through the steps necessary to submit your app to the Google Play and Apple iTunes stores.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering PhoneGap Mobile Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running test suites using Mocha


Since it's vital that we quickly identify which of our tests are failing, we need a utility that aggregates all our tests together and presents the results in a readable format. There are lots of fantastic test runners out there (Karma, Chutzpah, Jasmine, and so on). But in this section, we'll use Mocha. Mocha is pretty simple: it will execute each test we provide, identify which ones pass, and then proceed to call out any errors in an obvious manner.

Note

You can find more documentation on Mocha at http://mochajs.org.

First, we need to install Mocha:

npm install -g mocha

Next, we need to write some test suites that Mocha understands. Go ahead and get rid of the code.js and test.js files we created earlier. It's time for some real tests now! In fact, let's test our app's AbstractDictionary class.

Here's a really simple test that I wrote to verify that the dictionary could, in fact, create a new Dictionary object:

"use strict";
let should = require("./helpers/setup...