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Using Node.js for UI Testing

By : Pedro Teixeira
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Using Node.js for UI Testing

By: Pedro Teixeira

Overview of this book

<p>Automating tests for your user interfaces has always been the holy grail of programming. Now, using Zombie.js and Mocha you can create and quickly run your tests, allowing you to test even small changes. Increase your confidence in the code and minimize the number of times you have to use a real browser while you develop.</p> <p>"Using Node.js for UI Testing" is a quick and thorough guide on how to automatically test your web app, keeping it rock solid and bug-free. You will learn how to simulate complex user behaviour and verify that your application behaves correctly.</p> <p>You will create a web app in Node.js that uses complex user interactions and AJAX; by the end you will be able to fully test it from the command-line. Then you will start creating the user interface tests for this application using Mocha as a framework and Zombie.js as a headless browser.</p> <p>You will also create a complete test suite, module by module, testing simple and complex user interactions.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary


To install Mocha and Zombie, you need to include them as development dependencies in your application manifest and then use NPM to install them.

Once these modules are installed, you can create test files for each logical component of your application inside a directory named test. Each of these files should contain a series of tests, each of them properly contextualized inside nested describe statements.

You should also alter the application manifest to specify the testing script so that the tests are runnable using NPM.

In the following chapters, we'll be evolving this test and introduce some more, in order to cover more use cases of our application.