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WEB APP TESTING USING KNOCKOUT.JS

You're reading from   WEB APP TESTING USING KNOCKOUT.JS Design, implement, and maintain a fully tested JavaScript web application using Knockout.JS

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Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982844
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Task automation with GulpJS


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 script tag 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...

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