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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)

Testing the weather application


Now, we come to write the Jasmine tests for our weather application. Actually, after you know how to write Jasmine tests for both synchronous and asynchronous JavaScript code and how to load the HTML fixtures in your Jasmine tests from the previous sections, testing the weather application is an easy task. As you may remember we have three major JavaScript objects in the weather application that we need to write unit tests for: the LoginClient, RegistrationClient, and WeatherClient objects.

One of the best practices that I recommend is to separate the JavaScript source and testing code as shown in the preceding screenshot. There are two parent folders, one for the JavaScript source, which I call js-src folder, and the other for the JavaScript tests, which I call js-test folder. The js-test folder contains the tests written by the testing frameworks that will be used in this book; for now, it contains a jasmine folder that includes the Jasmine tests.

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