Backbone.js Testing

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Backbone.js Testing

By : Ryan Glenn Roemer

Book Image

Backbone.js Testing

By: Ryan Glenn Roemer

Overview of this book

Backbone.js Testing

Backbone.js Testing

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

Setting Up a Test Infrastructure

Setting Up a Test Infrastructure

Designing an application and test repository structure

Getting the test libraries

Setting up and writing our first tests

Running and assessing test results

Creating a Backbone.js Application Test Plan

Creating a Backbone.js Application Test Plan

A Backbone.js refresher

Selecting a Backbone.js application to test

Test paradigms and methods

Testing concepts, approaches, and planning

Testing individual Backbone.js components

Testing application interactions and events

Dipping our toes in the application testing waters

Running the application tests

Test Assertions, Specs, and Suites

Test Assertions, Specs, and Suites

Choosing a test style that fits

Trying out some different styles

A tour of the Chai assertion library

Getting the application and tests ready to run

Writing Mocha test specifications

Testing and supporting Backbone.js views

Aggregating and running the application tests

Test development tips, tricks, and hints

Test Spies

Fake it 'til you make it

Getting to know Sinon.JS

Spicing up Chai with the Sinon.JS plugin

Testing Backbone.js components with spies

Test Stubs and Mocks

Test Stubs and Mocks

Replacing method behaviors with Sinon.JS stubs

Faking and verifying behavior with Sinon.JS mocks

Testing Backbone.js components with stubs and mocks

Finding the rest of the Notes application components

A few more Sinon.JS test helpers

Automated Web Testing

Automated Web Testing

The world of testing beyond humans and browsers

Automating browser environments

Headless testing with PhantomJS

Parting thoughts, next steps, and future ideas

Index

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Choosing a test style that fits

Mocha and Chai both provide different library interfaces for writing tests. This conveniently allows developers to choose an appropriate test paradigm or style for different projects while still leveraging the same underlying functionality.

Mocha test interfaces

Mocha currently offers four interfaces for test suites and specifications:

The Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) interface: This interface uses test constructs similar to those popularized by the Ruby RSpec framework (http://rspec.info/).
The Test-Driven Development (TDD) interface: This interface uses more traditional unit test keywords such as suite and test.
The exports interface: This interface utilizes a modular format familiar to Node.js/CommonJS developers, implementing the test functionality as properties of a module.exports object.
The QUnit-styled interface: This interface uses a flat declaration paradigm taken from the popular QUnit test framework (http://qunitjs.com/). A suite in this style...