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PhoneGap By Example

You're reading from   PhoneGap By Example Use PhoneGap to apply web development skills and learn variety of cross-platform mobile applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785285318
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PhoneGap FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Project Structure with Sencha Touch 3. Easy Work with Device – Your First PhoneGap Application "Travelly" 4. Integrating the Travelly Application with Custom Service 5. Crazy Bubbles - Your First HTML5 Mobile Game 6. Share Your Crazy Bubbles Game Result on Social Networks 7. Building a Real-time Communication Application – Pumpidu 8. Building "Imaginary" – An Application with Instagram-like Image Filters 9. Testing the PhoneGap Application 10. Releasing and Maintaining the Application Index

Why we need tests


We are software developers, and we develop some applications. In this particular case, we develop mobile applications. The code that we write could be put in the browser, as a mobile program, or started as a Node.js script. In different cases, we expect particular results. Every line of code means something, and we need to know that the final product is doing what we need. Normally, we debug our applications. For example, we write part of the application and run it. We use different debugging tools and approaches. Sometimes, we use more complex tools, such as GapDebug, or something simple, such as visual acceptance or console.log. By monitoring the output or looking at the way it behaves, we know whether everything is good or there is a problem. However, this approach takes time, especially if the project is big and growing. Iterating over and over again through every single feature of the application could cost a lot of time and money. Automatic testing could help in such...

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