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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

Setting up JsTestDriver with IDE


In the previous section, we have seen how we can run JsTestDriver using command line. Now we will see how we can use it as an eclipse plugin. The eclipse plugin for JsTestDriver allows you to utilize all the features of JsTestDriver. Follow the steps to setup JsTestDriver for eclipse:

  1. Install Eclipse Indigo version from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/indigo/SR2/eclipse-jee-indigo-SR2-win32-x86_64.zip.

  2. Extract the downloaded ZIP in any of the drive of your system.

  3. Start Eclipse and navigate to Help | Install new Software.

  4. Add http://js-test-driver.googlecode.com/svn/update/ as an update site as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Check the JS Test Driver Plugin for Eclipse checkbox and hit Next:

  6. Click on Next on Install Details page:

  7. Accept the terms agreement and click on the Finish button.

  8. You will get one security warning alert, then click on Yes.

  9. When Eclipse asks you to restart/apply changes, click on Restart...