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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 3. Testing Tools

There are so many tools and frameworks available in the market to perform unit testing for any logical JavaScript code. It's necessary that we understand the way these tools work, since it's important to identify a good fit for a project. Though it's not possible to explain all the tools in one chapter or a book, yet some popular tools are included in this chapter. We can write tests with the usage of some test framework and just run them in the browser, on some static page. But for automation, when we use Jenkins (or other tools for continuous integration), we need some tool that can run our tests automatically such as Karma, PhantomJS, and many more. Each of these tools are explained in three subtopics like setup, writing tests, and running tests.

We will be covering the following testing frameworks and tools in this chapter:

  • JsUnit

  • QUnit

  • Karma with Jasmine

  • DalekJS