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JavaScript Mobile Application Development

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JavaScript Mobile Application Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JavaScript Mobile Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Writing your first Jasmine test


Before writing our first Jasmine test, we need to understand the difference between a suite and a spec (test specification) in Jasmine. Jasmine suite is a group of test cases that can be used to test a specific behavior of the JavaScript code. In Jasmine, the test suite begins with a call to the describe Jasmine global function that has two parameters. The first parameter represents the title of the test suite, while the second parameter represents a function that implements the test suite.

A Jasmine spec represents a test case inside the test suite. In Jasmine, the test case begins with a call to the Jasmine global function it that has two parameters. The first parameter represents the title of the spec and the second parameter represents a function that implements the test case.

A Jasmine spec contains one or more expectations. Every expectation represents an assertion that can be either true or false. In order to pass the specs, all of the expectations inside...