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    JavaScript Testing with Jasmine: JavaScript Behavior-Driven Development
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    JavaScript Testing with Jasmine: JavaScript Behavior-Driven Development

    By Evan Hahn

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    About this ebook

    Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your application. If you have JavaScript experience—with knowledge of some advanced features—you’ll learn how to write specifications for individual components, and then use those specs to test the code you write.

    Throughout the book, author Evan Hahn focuses primarily on methods for testing browser-based JavaScript applications, but you’ll also discover how to use Jasmine with CoffeeScript, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and Ruby without Rails. You won’t find a more in-depth source for Jasmine anywhere.

    • Get an overview of both test-driven and behavior-driven development
    • Write useful specs by determining what you need to test—and what you don’t
    • Test the behavior of new and existing code against the specs you create
    • Apply Jasmine matchers and discover how to build your own
    • Organize code suites into groups and subgroups as your code becomes more complex
    • Use a Jasmine spy in place of a function or an object—and learn why it’s valuable
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateMar 25, 2013
    ISBN9781449356767
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    JavaScript Testing with Jasmine: JavaScript Behavior-Driven Development
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    Evan Hahn

    Evan Hahn is an active member of the Node and Express community and contributes to many open source JavaScript projects.

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      You should know right away: this book is short, 41 pages, stem to stern.Jasmine is a free-and-open-source JavaScript testing application developed by Pivotal Labs and available on GitHub.After some brief why-you-should-do-this throat-clearing, Hahn walks the reader through the development of a few simple JavaScript functions and the Jasmine “suites” for testing them. He starts from the very beginning, getting and installing the software and setting up the environment. He explains every line of code and describes additional features and options of the application along the way and includes very clear instructions for writing and running the test code.With no experience testing JavaScript and only a little experience writing any software tests, this book was exactly the jump-start I needed. I duplicated the sample code in my IDE, goofed around with it a little bit, breaking it and extending it to see what happened and then was quickly able to start unit tests in my current project. Not well, at first, but with some confidence that I'd be able to figure things out.The prose can get clunky. Not unclear or incoherent, just lacking in grace, and there is one serious code error, already noted in the errata page for the book at O'Reilly Media. Hahn makes no mention of the active community of developers using and extending Jasmine nor of Jasmine's shortcomings (it's not good at testing DOM manipulations without an additional plugin) – this is very much “How To Get Started With Jasmine”.Minus “why you should test your software” arguments and some enthusiastic coverage of CoffeeScript and Ruby, you're left with something roughly equivalent to a high-quality Web tutorial. That's nothing to sneeze at, but it's not “The Definitive Guide”, either.