Preface

Today, application quality is a major concern among organizations. Lack of quality not only affects one's credibility but is also detrimental for end users and business operations. It is very important to develop applications by applying best practices and effective processes, and exercising the entire code base before deploying it on the production.

Jasmine is an open source Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework for testing JavaScript applications. It encourages good testing practices and application development using a BDD approach. Jasmine provides a rich set of libraries to design and develop tests for JavaScript (or JavaScript-enabled platform) applications. The entire application code can be exercised to ensure the quality and correctness of functional behavior. Jasmine also provides the mechanism to define custom functions and spies to test end-to-end (E2E) scenarios.

This book is written to get you up and running with Jasmine faster than any other book. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of Jasmine and is broken down into easy-to-follow recipes. While most chapters make use of previous skills that you'll have learnt from earlier the text, you don't necessarily need to read each chapter in order. Each recipe begins with the explicit steps that you need to accomplish the goal of the recipe, followed by an explanation as well as some other ideas you may wish to explore on your own.

Lastly, let's focus on building high-quality apps with Jasmine to minimize defect leakage in production. All you need is this book, a computer with Jasmine, and a constructive mind.