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JavaScript Unit Testing

By : Hazem Saleh
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JavaScript Unit Testing

By: Hazem Saleh

Overview of this book

<p>The largest challenge for many developers’ day to day life is ensuring the support of, and assuring the reach of, their product. With the ever increasing number of mainstream web browsers this is becoming a more difficult task for JavaScript coders. <br /><br />From the beginning, JavaScript Unit Testing will show you how to reduce the time you spend testing, and automate and ensure efficiency in guaranteeing your success.<br /><br />JavaScript Unit Testing will introduce and help you master the art of efficiently performing and automating JavaScript Unit tests for your web applications.<br /><br />Using the most popular JavaScript unit testing frameworks, you will develop, integrate, and automate all the tests you need to ensure the widest reach and success of your web application.<br /><br />Covering the most popular JavaScript Unit testing frameworks of today, JavaScript Unit Testing is your bible to ensuring the functionality and success of all of your JavaScript and Ajax Web Applications.<br /><br />Starting with Jasmine, you will also learn about, and use, YUITest, QUnit, and JsTestDriver, integrate them into your projects, and use them together to generate reports.<br /><br />Learn to automate these tools, make them work for you, and include the power of these tools in your projects from day one.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 5. JsTestDriver

JsTestDriver (JSTD) is one of the most powerful and efficient JavaScript unit testing frameworks. JSTD is not only a JavaScript unit testing framework but also a complete test runner that can run other JavaScript unit testing frameworks, such as Jasmine, YUI Test, and QUnit. JSTD provides a simple syntax for creating JavaScript test cases that can run either from the browser or from the command line; JSTD provides a clean mechanism for testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code. If you are familiar with the syntax of xUnit frameworks (such as JUnit), you will find yourself familiar with the JSTD syntax. In this chapter, the JSTD framework will be illustrated in detail and will be used to test the weather application that was discussed in Chapter 1, Unit Testing JavaScript Applications.