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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

Karma with Jasmine


Karma is a JavaScript command line tool that can be used to open a browser, which loads an application's source code and executes tests. Karma can be configured to run against a number of browsers, which is useful to boost any developers confident that the application works on all browsers that we need to support. Normally, Karma tests are executed on the command prompt and it will display the results of unit tests on the command prompt once a test is run in the browser.

Getting started

Karma runs on Node.js and it is available as a NPM package. To perform a setup of Karma, we first need Node.js installed in our machine. Let's first install Node.js on the machine. To install Node.js, we need to download it from http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/06/16/node-v0-10-29-stable/. Currently, Karma supports three stable versions of Node.js, which is 0.8.x, 0.10.x, and 0.12.x. We will install 0.10.29 Version for this chapter.

Once we installed Node.js, we can install Karma plugins with the...