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Node Web Development - Second Edition

You're reading from   Node Web Development - Second Edition JavaScript is no longer just for browsers and this exciting introduction to Node.js will show you how to build data-intensive applications that run in real time. Benefit from an easy, step-by-step approach that really works.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
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ISBN-13 9781782163305
Length 248 pages
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Node Web Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. About Node FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Node 3. Node Modules 4. HTTP Servers and Clients – A Web Application's First Steps 5. Implementing a Simple Express Application 6. Data Storage and Retrieval 7. Multiuser Authorization, Deployment, Scaling, and Hosting 8. Dynamic Interaction between the Client and Server Application 9. Unit Testing Index

Summary


In this concluding chapter, we've covered the basics of developing unit tests for a Node application. Unit testing is of course a large topic, but with this information you can take the steps required to improve your application quality.

Specifically we've covered:

  • Considerations for testing asynchronous code (what if the expected callback is never called?)

  • Using the assert module to implement quick test cases

  • The Vows test framework

  • Some questions about when to implement a mock object, and when not to do so

  • Creating a test database to hold test data

  • Separating the individual units to test in isolation from the rest of the application

  • Creating a mock data model, that can also be useful when prototyping the application

  • Testing route functions with all dependencies mocked out

  • Using test case failures to debug and improve the application

  • Making it easy to run the tests

For this to be a complete test suite, it has to do much more than what we've shown here, for example:

  • More tests for the Notes module...

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