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Jasmine JavaScript Testing Update

You're reading from   Jasmine JavaScript Testing Update Test your JavaScript applications efficiently using Jasmine and React.js

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Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785282041
Length 134 pages
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Jasmine basics and thinking in BDD

Based on the application presented previously, we can start writing acceptance criteria that define investment:

  • Given an investment, it should be of a stock
  • Given an investment, it should have the invested shares' quantity
  • Given an investment, it should have the share price paid
  • Given an investment, it should have a cost

Using the standalone distribution downloaded in the previous chapter, the first thing we need to do is create a new spec file. This file can be created anywhere, but it is a good idea to stick to a convention, and Jasmine already has a good one: specs should be in the /spec folder. Create an InvestmentSpec.js file and add the following lines:

describe("Investment", function() {

});

The describe function is a global Jasmine function used to define test contexts. When used as the first call in a spec, it creates a new test suite (a collection of test cases). It accepts two parameters, which are as follows:

  • The name of the test suite...
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