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Modular Programming with JavaScript

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Modular Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

Programming in the modular manner is always encouraged for bigger systems—it is easier to achieve scalability with modular programming. Even JavaScript developers are now interested in building programs in a modular pattern. Modules help people who aren’t yet familiar with code to find what they are looking for and also makes it easier for programmers to keep things that are related close together. Designing and implementing applications in a modular manner is highly encouraged and desirable in both simple and enterprise level applications. This book covers some real-life examples of modules and how we can translate that into our world of programming and application design. After getting an overview of JavaScript object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts and their practical usage, you should be able to write your own object definitions using the module pattern. You will then learn to design and augment modules and will explore the concepts of cloning, inheritance, sub-modules, and code extensibility. You will also learn about SandBoxing, application design, and architecture based on modular design concepts. Become familiar with AMD and CommonJS utilities. By the end of the book, you will be able to build spectacular modular applications in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Modular Programming with JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts
Index

Chapter 9. Modular Application Design and Testing

Now that we have completed the implementation of our application, it is time for us to talk about testing it. Of course, we test our application to make sure things works as expected and that the future changes to our code-base do not break our application's functionality.

One thing to keep in mind here, is that we are writing our tests after we have completed our implementation. However, there are times when we write our tests before our application's code.

The idea is that we write our tests first and expect them to fail since there is no implementation of the code. Then, as we implement our application, our tests start passing and we can be sure that the implemented code behaves as expected.

You may choose this approach over implementation first and testing later for your projects, but I would like to emphasize the point that, regardless of the approach, you need to write some automated tests!

With that in mind, in this chapter we are going...