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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

About the Reviewers

Raiyan Kamal is a strong proponent of the open source movement and sporadically contributes to various open source projects. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a master's degree from the UWindsor, Ontario, Canada. He has worked in the software industry for several years, developing software for mobile, web, and desktop platforms. He is currently working at IOU Concepts Inc., exploring different ways of saying "Thank you". When not doing stuffs on a computer, Raiyan plants trees and composts kitchen scraps.

Bohdan Liashenko has more than five years of experience in web development. He took part in the development of large projects for logistics, embedded solutions, and secure applications for enterprise. All of the projects he has been involved with were JavaScript-based. He has solid experience in design architecture and the development of complex HTML5 applications and practices high performance code optimization for JS and testing.

Currently he works as a technical lead at SoftServe Development Inc. Apart from this, he is the founder of the Imagine Dream Game studio and works on his own indie-game project.

Hema Pandey is a PMP-certified project manager with 8.5 years of total experience in the IT services and solutions industry in all phases of SDLC and project management. She completed her B.E. in computer science and engineering from Dehradun Institute of Technology and was placed in Tata Consultancy Services. She was associated with TCS for 7.5 years. Currently, she is working with Tavisca Solutions Pvt. Ltd since December 2014.

Her interests include wildlife photography, bird watching, mountaineering, and writing short stories and articles.

She can be reached on Skype at pandeyhema399. Connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hema-pandey-17b12216.