Jasmine JavaScript Testing - Second Edition

By Paulo Ragonha

About This Book

• Leverage the power of unit testing React.js to develop full-fledged JavaScript applications
• Learn the best practices of modularization and code organization while scaling your application
• Enhance your practical skills required to develop applications using the Jasmine framework in a step-by-step manner

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web developers and designers who work with React.js and JavaScript and who are new to unit testing and automation. It's assumed that you have a basic knowledge of JavaScript and HTML.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Apr 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781785283208

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Table of Contents

Jasmine JavaScript Testing Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Jasmine

JavaScript – the bad parts

Jasmine and behavior-driven development

Downloading Jasmine

Summary

2. Your First Spec

The Investment Tracker application

Jasmine basics and thinking in BDD

Setup and teardown

Nested describes

Setup and teardown

Coding a spec with shared behavior

Understanding matchers

Custom matchers

Built-in matchers

The toEqual built-in matcher

The toBe built-in matcher

The toBeTruthy and toBeFalsy matchers

The toBeUndefined, toBeNull, and toBeNaN built-in matchers

The toBeDefined built-in matcher

The toContain built-in matcher

The toMatch built-in matcher

The toBeLessThan and toBeGreaterThan built-in matchers

The toBeCloseTo built-in matcher

The toThrow built-in matcher

Summary

3. Testing Frontend Code

Thinking in terms of components (Views)

The module pattern

Using HTML fixtures

Basic View coding rules

The View should encapsulate a DOM element

Integrating Views with observers

Testing Views with jQuery matchers

The toBeMatchedBy jQuery matcher

The toContainHtml jQuery matcher

The toContainElement jQuery matcher

The toHaveValue jQuery matcher

The toHaveAttr jQuery matcher

The toBeFocused jQuery matcher

The toBeDisabled jQuery matcher

More matchers

Summary

4. Asynchronous Testing – AJAX

Acceptance criterion

Setting up the scenario

Installing Node.js

Coding the server

Running the server

Writing the spec

Asynchronous setups and teardowns

Asynchronous specs

Timeout

Summary

5. Jasmine Spies

The bare spy

Spying on an object's functions

Testing DOM events

Summary

6. Light Speed Unit Testing

Jasmine stubs

Jasmine Ajax

Installing the plugin

A fake XMLHttpRequest

Summary

7. Testing React Applications

Project setup

Our first React component

The Virtual DOM

JSX

Using JSX with Jasmine

Component attributes (props)

Component events

Component state

Component life cycle

Composing components

Summary

8. Build Automation

Module bundler – webpack

Module definition

Webpack project setup

Managing dependencies with NPM

Webpack configuration

The spec runner

Testing a module

Test runner: Karma

Quick feedback loop

Watch and run the tests

Watch and update the browser

Optimizing for production

Static code analysis: JSHint

Continuous integration – Travis-CI

Adding a project to Travis-CI

Project setup

Summary

Index

Jasmine JavaScript Testing Second Edition

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Jasmine JavaScript Testing Second Edition

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Credits

Author

Paulo Ragonha

Reviewers

Hany A. Elemary

Ryzhikov Maksim

Veer Shubhranshu Shrivastav

Sergey Simonchik

Commissioning Editor

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Acquisition Editor

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Content Development Editor

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Technical Editor

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About the Author

Paulo Ragonha is a software engineer with over 7 years of professional experience. An advocate of the open Web, he is inspired and driven to build compelling experiences on top of this ubiquitous platform.

He loves to hack, so you will often see him wandering around in conferences or attending hackathons. His most recent professional experiences ranged from DevOps (with Chef and Docker) to moving up the stack with Node.js, Ruby, and Python and all the way toward building single-page applications (mostly with Backbone.js and ad hoc solutions).

Passionate about automation, he sees testing as a liberating tool to enjoy the craft of writing code even more. Back in 2013, he wrote the first edition of the book Jasmine JavaScript Testing, Packt Publishing.

Paulo has an amazing wife, who he loves very much. He lives in beautiful Florianópolis, a coastal city in the south of Brazil. He is a casual speaker, a biker, a runner, and a hobbyist photographer.

About the Reviewers

Hany A. Elemary is a software engineer / technical team lead at OCLC in Columbus, Ohio, currently working on the next generation of mobile/web apps (http://www.worldcat.org and WorldCat for local institutions). He has been blessed with diverse experience while working for multiple companies (from small software shops to large corporations) and seeing different releasable software strategies. He has a clear focus and passion for mobile/web UI design, interactions, usability, and accessibility. When there is time, he enjoys playing his acoustic guitar, AnnaMaria.

Special thanks to my close friends and family for always pushing me to be better in every aspect of life.

Ryzhikov Maksim is a 27-year-old software developer from Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He develops complex web applications. He graduated from the physics faculty at Saint Petersburg State University. His journey into the world of software development started not so long ago—5 years ago.

His brother invited him to join the team that developed programs for American hospitals, as an HTML developer.

Ryzhikov started with developing a simple, static site for hospitals and then studied JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL and worked as a full-stack developer. In 5 years of work in the area of IT, he has worked in various projects and teams. He developed medical systems, dating sites, web mail (Yandex.Mail), and now he helps develop tools for developers at JetBrains.

Veer Shubhranshu Shrivastav is an Indian software developer working with Tata Consultancy Services since 2013 and is a former research intern at IIIT-Delhi. He has worked on different technologies, such as PHP, Moodle, jQuery, AngularJS, RequireJS, Android, Jasmine, Ionic, and so on, and also takes an interest in cryptography, network security, and database technologies. He has worked with various Indian IT start-ups, helping them as a software architect.

With his interest in the open source community, he developed a Pro*C library named CODBC, which is available at http://codbc.com. The library enables an object-oriented approach to connect C++ and Oracle Database.

Sergey Simonchik is a software developer living and working in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is lucky because he has a wonderful wife and a kind cat. Sergey develops the WebStorm IDE at JetBrains. He is working on improving JavaScript unit testing support and other IDE features.

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Preface

This book is about being a better JavaScript developer. So, throughout the chapters, you will not only learn about writing tests in the Jasmine 'idiom', but also about the best practices in writing software in the JavaScript language. It is about acknowledging JavaScript as a real platform for application development and leveraging