In this recipe, we'll make use of the contrib-jasmine (0.7.0) plugin to run our automated Jasmine tests in a PhantomJS browser environment.
In this example, we'll work with the basic project structure we created in the Installing Grunt on a project recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Grunt. Be sure to refer to it if you are not yet familiar with its contents.
The following steps take us through creating a sample code base, a few tests to run against the code base, and setting up Grunt to run them for us in a PhantomJS browser environment.
We'll start by installing the package that contains the
contrib-jasmineplugin by following the instructions provided in the Installing a plugin recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Grunt.Then, we'll create a simple JavaScript source file in our project directory, which contains a function that we'd like to test. Let's call it
main.jsand add the following content to it:function square(x) { return...