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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785282041
Length 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paulo Vitor Zacharias Ragonha Paulo Vitor Zacharias Ragonha
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Chapter 3. Testing Frontend Code

Testing JavaScript browser code has been notoriously considered hard, and although there are many complications while dealing with cross-browser testing, the most common problem is not with the testing process but rather that the application code itself is not testable.

Since every element in the browser's document is accessible globally, it is easy to write a monolithic piece of JavaScript code, which deals with the whole page. This leads to a number of problems, and the biggest one is that it is pretty hard to test.

In this chapter, we are going to get the best practices on how to write maintainable and testable browser code.

To implement the user interface, we are going to use jQuery, a well-known JavaScript library that abstracts the browser's DOM in a clean and simple API that works across different browsers.

To make the writing of the specs easier, we're going to use Jasmine jQuery, a Jasmine extension that adds new matchers to...

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