Before talking about unit testing automation (that is the main objective of this chapter), we need to introduce another concept: task automation.
What do we really mean by the term task automation? Well, we need to talk about what we need to do when delivering a web application to production.
The one and only true objective of web development is to publish a fully functioning and optimized web application. In this regard, there are several well-known best practices that have to be respected, at least:
Source code quality verification: Using tools like JSLint or JSHint, we need to check the quality of our source code in search of possible style convention deficiencies as well as structural problems
Source file concatenation: We need to build a unique source code file in order to include a single
scripttag in the corresponding web page (remember that every script tag is a call to the web server, thus a delay in the page load process; it's important to reduce as much...