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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

Undetectable features


When there is not sufficient confidence that a feature exists or not, a feature is said to be undetectable. Not everything can be detected by Modernizr because of its limitations or yet to be developed or are partially supported. It is said to be relied on other ways to detect these features. One of these ways is browser detection, which we discussed in the previous section.

Undetectable features are classified into several categories such as HTML5 features that are related to audio/video, networking, typography, events, CSS, and IE Edge. The features mentioned in these categories are found to be undetectable by Modernizr. This list is maintained by Modernizr in their wiki and can be found here at GitHub https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/Undetectables().

Let's take an example of using @font-face. We are using raleway fonts available at https://github.com/theleagueof/raleway. If you see, all versions of IE will add the fontface CSS class to HTML element, but...