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JavaScript Unit Testing

By : Hazem Saleh
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JavaScript Unit Testing

By: Hazem Saleh

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<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>

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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
JavaScript Unit Testing
JavaScript Unit Testing
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Unit Testing JavaScript Applications
Unit Testing JavaScript Applications
What unit testing is
Why we need unit testing
What Test-Driven Development (TDD) is
Complexities in testing JavaScript applications
Weather forecasting application
Summary
2
Jasmine
Jasmine
Configuration
Writing your first Jasmine test
The nested describe blocks
Jasmine matchers
Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
HTML fixtures
Testing the weather application
Summary
3
YUI Test
YUI Test
Writing your first YUI test
Assertions
Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
Testing the weather application
Automation and integration with build management tools
Summary
4
QUnit
QUnit
Configuration
Writing your first QUnit test
Assertions
Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
Testing the weather application
Summary
5
JsTestDriver
JsTestDriver
Architecture
Configuration
Writing your first JSTD test
Assertions
Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
Testing the weather application
Integration with other JavaScript test frameworks
Integration with build management tools
Integration with the IDEs
Summary
Index
Index

Configuration

In order to configure JSTD, you need to follow the ensuing steps:

  1. Download the framework from http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/downloads/list. At the time of this writing, the latest release of JSTD is v1.3.4.b. So, the JsTestDriver-1.3.4.b.jar file has been used for working with JSTD in this chapter.

    As recommended in the previous chapters, it is a good habit to separate the JavaScript source and testing files in different folders for the sake of organization.

  2. The second step is to create the JSTD test configuration file, jsTestDriver.conf, as shown in the following code snippet:

    server: http://localhost:9876

load:
  - src/*.js
  - tests/*.js

    The configuration file is in YAML format (YAML is a recursive acronym for YAML Ain't Markup Language. For more information about the YAML format, check http://yaml.org/.). The server directive refers to the JSTD server URL. If the server directive is not specified, the server URL will be needed to be specified at the command line....

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