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Jasmine Cookbook

You're reading from   Jasmine Cookbook Over 35 recipes to design and develop Jasmine tests to produce world-class JavaScript applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397166
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Munish Kumar Munish Kumar
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Jasmine Framework 2. Jasmine with TDD and BDD Processes FREE CHAPTER 3. Customizing Matchers and Jasmine Functions 4. Designing Specs from Requirement 5. Jasmine Spies 6. Jasmine with AJAX, jQuery, and Fixtures 7. Code Coverage with Jasmine Tests 8. Jasmine with Other Tools 9. Developing JavaScript Apps Using Jasmine – a Real-time Scenario Index

Defining nested suites to write more meaningful specs

Sometimes, we need to refactor Jasmine specs by defining a suite or suites within a suite (that is, nested suites) to make it more granular and readable. This helps all stakeholders to understand the functionality from a holistic perspective. Moreover, you can easily identify and map the failing spec(s) with an exact piece of code. In this recipe, you will learn to design specs with nested suites.

Note

In Jasmine, we can define suites using the describe global function. This function accepts two parameters (string and function()). The string parameter is for naming the collection of specs and function() is a block of code that implements the suite.

Getting ready

You will learn this recipe with the help of a previous recipe in this chapter. For more information, refer to the Designing the Jasmine test for existing code using TDD and BDD recipe.

To understand when and how to define nested test suites to write more meaningful specs, let&apos...

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