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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

QUnit


QUnit is JavaScript test framework, which can be used to run unit test written in JavaScript. QUnit is used by jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery mobile projects. QUnit was originally developed by John Resig as a part of jQuery. QUnit is normally used to test the JavaScript code and it's even used to test server-side JavaScript via some JavaScript engine such as Rhine or V8. Like we have seen in JsUnit, we can run the QUnit test in browser or in command prompt with some test runner such as Karma.

Getting started

To install QUnit in our system, we need to get the QUnit library from jQuery CDN (http://code.jquery.com/qunit/).

Two files are needed to run test with the use of QUnit: qunit.js and quint.css. Once we download these files, then we can start writing our tests.

Writing tests

Let's see how we can write test using QUnit and know about assertions available in QUnit:

  • Assertions: QUnit contains the following assertions that we can use to write any test:

    • async(): Instruct QUnit to wait for...