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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)

Integration with other JavaScript test frameworks


As we know from the definition of JSTD, it is not only a JavaScript test framework but also a complete test runner that can run other JavaScript frameworks on top of it, using adapters . Fortunately, JSTD has many ready-made adapters, developed by the open source community, that enable many JavaScript frameworks (such as Jasmine, QUnit, and YUI Test) to integrate with JSTD. The integration of JSTD with both Jasmine and QUnit is highly required because these testing frameworks do not have an out-of-the-box mechanism for executing the tests from the command-line interface (unlike YUI Test, which can run from the command line using YUI Test Selenium Driver, as illustrated in detail in Chapter 3, YUI Test). Having the ability to execute the tests from the command-line interface allows automating the running of tests by using the build and the continuous integration tools.

In this section, the required steps and tricks that are needed for integrating...