Test-Driven Javascript Development [Paperback]

Learn JavaScript test-driven development using popular frameworks and tools

About This Book

• Learn the life cycle of TDD and its importance in real-world application
• Gain knowledge about popular tools and analyze features, syntax, and how they help in JavaScript testing
• Implement test-driven programming exercises using the practical code examples

Who This Book Is For

If you have an intermediate knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to learn how and why the test-driven development approach is better for your assignments, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Basic TDD fundamentals, life cycle, and benefits
• Become acquainted with the concepts and elements of unit testing and writing basic unit tests for JavaScript
• Understand the way JsUnit, Qunit, Karma and DalekJs work
• Use the Jasmine framework
• Interpret feature detection and devise tests specific to cross-browser compatibility
• Integrate jsTestDriver with Eclipse and run tests with jsTestDriver
• Explore re-factoring, adding and notifying observers
• Understand test-driven development in case of server-side JS

In Detail

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 lC0