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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)

Summary


In this chapter, you learned what Jasmine is and how to use it for testing synchronous JavaScript code. You also learned how to test asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code using Jasmine Spies and the waitsFor/runs mechanism. You also learned how to make fake Ajax testing using Jasmine. You learned the various matchers provided by the framework, and know how to load the HTML fixtures easily in your Jasmine tests. Finally, I explained how to apply all of these things for testing the weather application using Jasmine. In the next chapter, you will learn how to work with the YUI Test framework and how to use it for testing the weather application.