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Test-Driven JavaScript Development

By : Ravi Kumar Gupta
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Test-Driven JavaScript Development

By: Ravi Kumar Gupta

Overview of this book

Initially, all processing used to happen on the server-side and simple output was the response to web browsers. Nowadays, there are so many JavaScript frameworks and libraries created that help readers to create charts, animations, simulations, and so on. By the time a project finishes or reaches a stable state, so much JavaScript code has already been written that changing and maintaining it further is tedious. Here comes the importance of automated testing and more specifically, developing all that code in a test-driven environment. Test-driven development is a methodology that makes testing the central part of the design process – before writing code developers decide upon the conditions that code must meet to pass a test. The end goal is to help the readers understand the importance and process of using TDD as a part of development. This book starts with the details about test-driven development, its importance, need, and benefits. Later the book introduces popular tools and frameworks like YUI, Karma, QUnit, DalekJS, JsUnit and goes on to utilize Jasmine, Mocha, Karma for advanced concepts like feature detection, server-side testing, and patterns. We are going to understand, write, and run tests, and further debug our programs. The book concludes with best practices in JavaScript testing. By the end of the book, the readers will know why they should test, how to do it most efficiently, and will have a number of versatile tests (and methods for devising new tests) to get to work immediately.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Test-Driven JavaScript Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Features testing with Modernizr


There is a good number of tests written by Modernizr for feature detection. These tests by Modernizr can be classified into categories—CSS features, HTML5 features, and some features, which do not fall in these categories. In the subsections, you will learn about these features and the facility that Modernizr provides for feature testing. The following sections list a very small list of features detected by Modernizr. For a complete list, please see Appendix, List of Features Detected by Modernizr 3.

CSS features

For a feature, Modernizr adds a CSS class to the <html> element as we have seen earlier. Modernizr also adds a property to Modernizr JavaScript object for the feature. We can utilize these classes to check if a feature is present or not. The following table shows the list of few features and their respective CSS classes or JavaScript properties added by Modernizr:

Features

JavaScript properties / CSS classes

Features

JavaScript properties ...