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Test-Driven JavaScript Development

By : Ravi Kumar Gupta
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Test-Driven JavaScript Development

By: Ravi Kumar Gupta

Overview of this book

Initially, all processing used to happen on the server-side and simple output was the response to web browsers. Nowadays, there are so many JavaScript frameworks and libraries created that help readers to create charts, animations, simulations, and so on. By the time a project finishes or reaches a stable state, so much JavaScript code has already been written that changing and maintaining it further is tedious. Here comes the importance of automated testing and more specifically, developing all that code in a test-driven environment. Test-driven development is a methodology that makes testing the central part of the design process – before writing code developers decide upon the conditions that code must meet to pass a test. The end goal is to help the readers understand the importance and process of using TDD as a part of development. This book starts with the details about test-driven development, its importance, need, and benefits. Later the book introduces popular tools and frameworks like YUI, Karma, QUnit, DalekJS, JsUnit and goes on to utilize Jasmine, Mocha, Karma for advanced concepts like feature detection, server-side testing, and patterns. We are going to understand, write, and run tests, and further debug our programs. The book concludes with best practices in JavaScript testing. By the end of the book, the readers will know why they should test, how to do it most efficiently, and will have a number of versatile tests (and methods for devising new tests) to get to work immediately.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Test-Driven JavaScript Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Testing Concepts

There are a number of ways and methods to test software quality. TDD is focused on testing the small pieces of code using unit tests. Unit tests play a big and important role in TDD irrespective of the programming language. While learning TDD, it is essential to understand unit testing and testing frameworks. In the previous chapter, you learned about the life cycle of TDD. Now with examples, we will see how each step of the life cycle is executed. For this chapter, we will try to showcase examples using YUI (short for Yahoo User Interface) because of its simplicity and easy-to-understand functions.

In this chapter, you will learn about unit testing, a little about frameworks, how a test is written, actions, and assertions in unit tests. In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • Unit testing

  • Following the process

  • Benefits and pitfalls