JavaScript Unit Testing

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Unit Testing JavaScript Applications
• What unit testing is
• Why we need unit testing
• What Test-Driven Development (TDD) is
• Complexities in testing JavaScript applications
• Weather forecasting application
• Exploring the application's HTML and JavaScript code
• Running the weather application
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Jasmine
• Configuration
• Writing your first Jasmine test
• The nested describe blocks
• Jasmine matchers
• The toBe matcher
• The toBeDefined and toBeUndefined matchers
• The toBeNull matcher
• The toBeTruthy and toBeFalsy matchers
• The toContain matcher
• The toBeLessThan and toBeGreaterThan matchers
• The toMatch matcher
• Developing custom Jasmine matchers
• Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
• The runs() function
• The waits() function
• The waitsFor() function
• The spyOn() function
• HTML fixtures
• Configuring the jasmine-jquery plugin
• The loadFixtures module
• Testing the weather application
• Testing the LoginClient object
• Testing the RegistrationClient object
• Testing the WeatherClient object
• Running the weather application tests
• Summary

• Chapter 3: YUI Test
• Writing your first YUI test
• Assertions
• The assert assertion
• The areEqual and areNotEqual assertions
• The areSame and areNotSame assertions
• The datatype assertions
• Special value assertions
• The fail assertion
• Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
• The wait and resume functions
• Testing the weather application
• Testing the LoginClient object
• Testing the RegistrationClient object
• Testing the WeatherClient object
• Running the weather application tests
• Generating test reports
• Automation and integration with build management tools
• Configuring YUI Test Selenium Driver
• Using YUI Test Selenium Driver in the weather application
• Integration with build management tools
• Summary

• Chapter 4: QUnit
• Configuration
• Writing your first QUnit test
• Assertions
• The ok assertion
• The equal and notEqual assertions
• The deepEqual and notDeepEqual assertions
• The expect assertion
• Developing custom QUnit assertions
• Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
• The stop and start APIs
• Testing the weather application
• Testing the LoginClient object
• Testing the RegistrationClient object
• Testing the WeatherClient object
• Running the weather application tests
• Summary

• Chapter 5: JsTestDriver
• Architecture
• Configuration
• Writing your first JSTD test
• Assertions
• The assert, assertTrue, and assertFalse([msg], expression) assertions
• The assertEquals and assertNotEquals([msg], expected, actual) assertions
• The assertSame and assertNotSame([msg], expected, actual) assertions
• The datatype assertions
• Special value assertions
• The fail([msg]) assertion
• Testing asynchronous (Ajax) JavaScript code
• AsyncTestCase, queue, and callbacks
• Testing the weather application
• Testing the LoginClient object
• Testing the RegistrationClient object
• Testing the WeatherClient object
• Configuring the proxy
• Running the weather application tests
• Generating test reports
• Integration with other JavaScript test frameworks
• Integrating JSTD with Jasmine
• Integrating JSTD with QUnit
• Integration with build management tools
• Integration with the IDEs
• Eclipse integration
• Summary

• Index