5. Jasmine Spies | Jasmine JavaScript Testing Update

The "bare" spy

To understand the concept of behavior checking, let's revisit an example presented in Chapter 3, Testing Frontend Code, and test the observable behavior of the NewInvestmentView test suite:

 describe("NewInvestmentView", function() {
  var view;

  // setup and other specs ...

  describe("with its inputs correctly filled", function() {

    // setup and other specs ...

    describe("and when an investment is created", function() {
      var callbackSpy;
      var investment;

      beforeEach(function() {
        callbackSpy = jasmine.createSpy('callback');
        view.onCreate(callbackSpy);

        investment = view.create();
      });

      it("should invoke the 'onCreate' callback with the created investment", function() {

        expect(callbackSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
        expect(callbackSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(investment);
      });
    });
  });
});

During the spec setup, it creates a new Jasmine spy using the jasmine.createSpy function while passing a name...

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Jasmine JavaScript Testing Update

By : Paulo Vitor Zacharias Ragonha

Jasmine JavaScript Testing Update

By: Paulo Vitor Zacharias Ragonha

Overview of this book

The "bare" spy

Jasmine JavaScript Testing Update

By : Paulo Vitor Zacharias Ragonha

Jasmine JavaScript Testing Update

By: Paulo Vitor Zacharias Ragonha

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