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Backbone.js Testing

Backbone.js Testing

By : Ryan Glenn Roemer
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Backbone.js Testing
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Setting Up a Test Infrastructure
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Setting Up a Test Infrastructure
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Designing an application and test repository structure
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Getting the test libraries
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Setting up and writing our first tests
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Running and assessing test results
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Summary
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Creating a Backbone.js Application Test Plan
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Creating a Backbone.js Application Test Plan
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A Backbone.js refresher
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Selecting a Backbone.js application to test
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Test paradigms and methods
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Testing concepts, approaches, and planning
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Testing individual Backbone.js components
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Testing application interactions and events
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Dipping our toes in the application testing waters
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Running the application tests
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Test Assertions, Specs, and Suites
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Test Assertions, Specs, and Suites
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Choosing a test style that fits
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Trying out some different styles
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A tour of the Chai assertion library
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Getting the application and tests ready to run
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Writing Mocha test specifications
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Testing and supporting Backbone.js views
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Aggregating and running the application tests
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Test development tips, tricks, and hints
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Test Spies
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Test Spies
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Fake it 'til you make it
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Getting to know Sinon.JS
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Spicing up Chai with the Sinon.JS plugin
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Testing Backbone.js components with spies
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Test Stubs and Mocks
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Test Stubs and Mocks
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Replacing method behaviors with Sinon.JS stubs
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Faking and verifying behavior with Sinon.JS mocks
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Testing Backbone.js components with stubs and mocks
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Finding the rest of the Notes application components
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A few more Sinon.JS test helpers
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Automated Web Testing
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Automated Web Testing
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The world of testing beyond humans and browsers
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Automating browser environments
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Headless testing with PhantomJS
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Parting thoughts, next steps, and future ideas
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Index
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Index

Test development tips, tricks, and hints

While we continue to explore the theory and practice of testing Backbone.js applications, it remains true that creating test architectures and writing good test specifications are more of an art than an exact science. Many lessons can only be learned through experience, particularly as your applications encounter bugs and development mishaps. In the meantime, we can start you off with some techniques and suggestions.

Isolating and excluding tests

Application development is a journey guaranteed to include inexplicable errors, sudden application crashes, and complex test failures. When these pitfalls happen, it is important to have some directions on how to debug the problems and move things forward.

A common scenario during software development is when application changes break one or more existing unit tests. In this case, a good practice is to run the test suite one test at a time, fix the test, and then move on to the rest. Mocha provides two avenues...

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