Advanced Jasmine - Front-End JavaScript Unit Testing

Published: 2013-07-09 by Lars  talktestingUI

Unit testing front-end JavaScript presents its own unique set of challenges. Yesterday we had another event in the Test Driven Developers Bay Area meetup group. At this event I presented a number of different techniques to tackle these challenges and make our JavaScript unit tests fast and robust using Jasmine (another version using QUnit). I covered the following subjects:

• Mocking and spy techniques to avoid dependencies on
  • Functions, methods and constructor functions
  • Time (new Date())
  • Timers (setTimeout, setInterval)
  • Ajax requests
  • The DOM
  • Events
• Expressive matchers
  • jasmine-jquery
• Structuring tests for reuse and readability
• Testing browser-specific behaviour

You can watch the 1:30 hour video, just hear the audio (better sound), look at the code and watch the slides:

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