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JavaScript Unit Testing

By : Hazem Saleh
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JavaScript Unit Testing

By: Hazem Saleh

Overview of this book

<p>The largest challenge for many developers’ day to day life is ensuring the support of, and assuring the reach of, their product. With the ever increasing number of mainstream web browsers this is becoming a more difficult task for JavaScript coders. <br /><br />From the beginning, JavaScript Unit Testing will show you how to reduce the time you spend testing, and automate and ensure efficiency in guaranteeing your success.<br /><br />JavaScript Unit Testing will introduce and help you master the art of efficiently performing and automating JavaScript Unit tests for your web applications.<br /><br />Using the most popular JavaScript unit testing frameworks, you will develop, integrate, and automate all the tests you need to ensure the widest reach and success of your web application.<br /><br />Covering the most popular JavaScript Unit testing frameworks of today, JavaScript Unit Testing is your bible to ensuring the functionality and success of all of your JavaScript and Ajax Web Applications.<br /><br />Starting with Jasmine, you will also learn about, and use, YUITest, QUnit, and JsTestDriver, integrate them into your projects, and use them together to generate reports.<br /><br />Learn to automate these tools, make them work for you, and include the power of these tools in your projects from day one.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Configuration


In order to configure Jasmine, the first step is to download the framework from https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine/downloads. Here, you will find the latest releases of the framework. At the time of this writing, the latest release is v1.2.0, which has been used in this book.

After unpacking jasmine-standalone-1.2.0.zip (or later), you will find the folder structure shown in the following screenshot:

The src folder in the preceding screenshot contains the JavaScript source files that you want to test, the spec folder contains the JavaScript testing files, while SpecRunner.html is the test case runner HTML file. The lib folder contains the framework files.

In order to make sure that everything is running OK, click on the SpecRunner.html file; you should see passing specs, as shown in the following screenshot:

This structure is not rigid; you can modify it to serve the organization of your application. For the purpose of testing the weather application, we will modify it to cope...