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Learning Vue.js 2

You're reading from   Learning Vue.js 2 Learn how to build amazing reactive web applications easily with Vue.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469946
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Olga Filipova Olga Filipova
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Going Shopping with Vue.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Fundamentals – Installing and Using 3. Components – Understanding and Using 4. Reactivity – Binding Data to Your Application 5. Vuex – Managing State in Your Application 6. Plugins – Building Your House with Your Own Bricks 7. Testing – Time to Test What We Have Done So Far! 8. Deploying – Time to Go Live! 9. What Is Next? A. Solutions to Exercises

Writing unit tests for the shopping list application


Before starting the actual writing of our unit tests, let's establish some rules. For each of our .js or .vue files, there will exist a corresponding test spec file, which will have the same name and a .spec.js extension. The structure of these specs will follow this approach:

  • It will describe the file we are testing
  • It will have a describe method for each of the methods that is being tested
  • It will have an it method for each of the cases we are describing

So, if we had a myBeautifulThing.js file and spec for it, it might look like the following:

// myBeautifulThing.js 
export myBeautifulMethod1() { 
  return 'hello beauty' 
} 
 
export myBeautifulMethod2() { 
  return 'hello again' 
} 
 
// myBeautifulThing.spec.js 
import myBeautifulThing from <path to myBeautifulThing> 
 
describe('myBeautifulThing', () => { 
  //define needed variables 
 
  describe('myBeautifulMethod1...
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