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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

DalekJS


DalekJS provides simple and fast way to do automated web testing. It supports almost all kinds of browsers and can script them, takes screenshots, and creates reports about the tests. DalekJS is an open source tool, which can be used to perform UI testing written in JavaScript. It will be used to launch and automate the users' browser, fill values automatically and submit the forms, click on elements and links on the page, capture screenshots, and run the tests which have been written to test functional use cases.

Getting started

In this section, you will learn about DalekJS. It is an automated browser testing tool with JavaScript. With DalekJS, we can even run tests directly in Firefox, Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer.

Create a package.json file in your work directory:

Package.json:
{
  "name": "myCssTardis", // Name of your project
  "description": "Is awesome",//Description
  "version": "0.0.2"  //version of DalekJS
}

First install Node.js into your system. To install Node.js,...