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Backbone.js Testing

By : Ryan Glenn Roemer
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Backbone.js Testing

By: Ryan Glenn Roemer

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Backbone.js Testing
Ryan Glenn Roemer
Jul, 2013 | 168 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Backbone.js Testing
Backbone.js Testing
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
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
Summary
2
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
Summary
3
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
Summary
4
Test Spies
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
Summary
5
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
Summary
6
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
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Ryan Roemer is the Director of Engineering at Curiosity Media, a language learning startup, where he manages technical operations and leads the development team. He develops (and tests) full-stack JavaScript applications and backend Node.js services. He also works with data mining, cloud architectures, and problems related to large scale distributed systems.

He was previously an engineer in the cloud computing storage group of Microsoft's Azure platform and most recently developed the search and cloud architecture for IP Street, a patent data mining startup. Besides engineering, he is a registered patent attorney (inactive), although it has been a long time since he has put on his lawyer hat.

You can find him online at http://loose-bits.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ryan_roemer.

This book simply would not have been possible without the open source community, which has contributed to all the pieces of technology we have discussed in this book. In particular, the Backbone.js community's commitment to documentation, tutorials, and guides allows the rest of the Web to keep up with the amazingly rapid evolution of the Backbone.js library and ecosystem.

I would like to thank the JavaScript developer communities in the District of Columbia and Seattle, WA, for their incidental feedback, chats, and ideas throughout the development of the book. Additionally, I owe a debt of gratitude to the book's technical reviewers, as they put up with some quite rough early drafts of chapters, provided immensely useful feedback, and helped shepherd the book to its final form.

Finally, my most heartfelt thanks and love to my wife, Robin. Your support and help through the late nights, weekends, and a hectic cross-country move has been truly indispensible.

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