Jasmine Cookbook: Over 35 recipes to design and develop Jasmine tests to produce world-class JavaScript applications

Munish Kumar

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4.3 (7 Ratings)

eBook Apr 2015 276 pages 1st Edition

Munish Kumar

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eBook Apr 2015 276 pages 1st Edition

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If you are a competent JavaScript developer who wants to design and implement tests using Jasmine in order to minimize bugs in the production environment, then this book is ideal for you. Some familiarity with unit testing and code coverage concepts such as branch coverage along with basic knowledge of Node.js, AngularJS, and CoffeeScript is required.

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Develop JavaScript applications with Jasmine using the behaviordriven development (BDD) process
Apply custom matchers by enhancing your Jasmine tests to test specific features or functionality
Design Jasmine specs for jQuery and Ajax with HTML and JSON fixtures
Generate code coverage analysis for JavaScript code using Karma and Istanbul
Create Jasmine tests for CoffeeScript and AngularJS
Implement E2E (endtoend) Jasmine specs for JavaScript applications to simulate a realtime scenario

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Rene Lopez| Jun 04, 2015

Great book covering the most of the common scenarios that you will find for test Javascript Apps in General.I actually was looking for a book that provided a concise and curated content for making tests for Javascript Apps and for me this is it, as it gives you kind of real business scenarios as examples for developing tests.We are always try to avoid testing and focus most on the time developing things but thanks to this book, you can follow a more TDD practices on my code and give more quality to it. A must reference for any JS Developer.

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Dipti Jun 15, 2015

Book is designed to help both novice and advance users to understand and implement.It uses TDD and BDD process for the implementation, which makes implementation and execution of my project quite easy for new and existing code. It even has Code Coverage analysis explained using Karma and Istanbul tools. This book gives us a fair idea about the usage of Jasmine Spies from E2E perspective, Jasmine tests with jQuery, Asynchronous operations, Implementation of Fixtures and manipulation of DOM with Jasmine tests. It has vast variety of examples provided on Data driven approach, Angular JS, Node.js and CoffeeScript with Jasmine tests.Examples given in this book are to the point, overall a good book to understand and implement Jasmine tests following all good practices.

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Arun Mahendrakar Sep 11, 2016

I've read other books on Jasmine, but this one clearly has been the best. It starts out real basic defining of the Jasmine jargon-ology (I guess I just coined a new word). The first three chapters are for those who want to start out with Jasmine for the first time. TDD/BDD are described in detail in the early chapters, which helps a newbie to level-set his frame of mind on how to think in terms of writing code and unit tests.Usage of advanced concepts like working with spies, mocking AJAX, jQuery and Fixtures are divulged pretty well. The author recognizes the importance of code-coverage and dedicates an entire chapter to discuss it.As expected, the author does mention how to unit test code written using AngularJS and CoffeeScript code. The wide-range scope of Jasmine demonstrates the maturity and versatility of the testing framework.I'm hoping a future version of this book will contain a section on build automation, but this is a really great book for both beginners and experienced JavaScript developers.

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Vipul Gupta Jun 11, 2015

I have been involved in doing evaluation of a lot of tools and frameworks to suite the day to day project and client needs. Recently did a research on "Jasmine" to validate and check it's implementation feasibility for BDD when I hit "Jasmine Cookbook".I was quite intrigued when I received this book written by Munish Sethi, as it provides practical ways how a novice can actually learn Jasmine quickly and easily. So, is it a ideal reference book for a product team to get handson on Jasmine quickly?In short: Yes. It acts as a great reference for the teams who want to implement Jasmine for their products. More importantly it acts as a quick reference for anyone who wants to begin with Jasmine.This book is divided into 9 logical chapters with each chapter focusing on a particular need that any team might be having at any particular phase of a SDLC i.e. from evaluation phase till actual implementation and measurement phase. Some of the key focus areas that the writer has brought out very clearly are1.How Jasmine can be implemented in teams following either TDD or BDD. It becomes easy for the user to understand and implement it in the projects thereafter.2.All examples relate to the real world scenarios a layman might get into, hence, makes them easy to understand3.Provides a detailed step by step approach to write your own custom "equality" and "matcher" functions in Jasmine4.Performing mocking using spyOn() method, Asynchronous operations and Implementation of Fixtures and manipulation of DOM with Jasmine tests is explained in detail.5.Includes practical usage and designing of Jasmine based automated tests to validate complex functionality developed using AJAX, jQuery, JSON Fixtures6.Apart from the automated tests, it also includes methodologies to validate the code coverage achieved through the automated tests using JavaScript Code Coverage tool Karma and Istanbul that can enable product teams to keep a check on what they are testing.Towards the end, Jasmine integration and usage with other tools like Angular JS, Node.js and CoffeeScript is touched upon. Though these could have been detailed further, but it gives a platform to quickly start in case there is a need for these technologies. But, overall the book is a great guide for a product team to take small steps to learn and implement Jasmine as per their needs.

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Dwarika Jul 16, 2015

This book has been best design for experienced developer of JavaScript, Jquery and Ajax but presentation of content is more like a beginners guide that seems biggest USP of this book.In this book, First Three chapter are just for beginners at some extent because this section is going to help you to understand setting up Jasmine and would also teach you how to design unit tests for JavaScript and would also give you overview about matchers those gonna help you to design Jasmine Specs for pending specs along with exceptions. After going through these three chapter i am pretty sure that you would be able to differentiate the need of TDD and BDD approach . and you will get an analytical thought about the use of TDD and BDD in your project. So if you are a beginner then be happy because these three chapters are written for you and after that you would be able to understand the use of this Jasmine framework.My favorite chapter is seventh chapter that talks more about Code Coverage with Jasmine Tests, then question arises why do i like this chapter So my answer is , here you are going to generate the coverage report that is going to keep your business people satisfied and intend them to think ' all is going well <It more like slogan of 3 Idiots movie 'All iz well'>' because this shows all you effort in numbers and business people do believe in numbers and percentage. This can be achieved only after going through this chapter and from here you would be able to understand the basics of code coverage that is used in our development or automation test creation. So believe me this is the chapter that is going to bring more appreciation from your business people and senior people in company hierarchy for you. Don't worry, All the numbers and percentage of your code coverage would be taken care by the use of karma and istanbul tools. Best thing that is in this chapter is its 'How to do it' section because this is just a step by step implementation in real time project.Apart from all above what I like most is, its running code that can be either created by you while practicing this book or the same can be cloned from git repository. So after going through this book, I am pretty sure you would be pretty clear about Jasmine framework and its better use in real time environment.So at the end of this book you would be able to see one bonus chapter that is going to help you to create JavaScript App using Jasmine so this is the chapter that has been written for the pro -developers who have already master the Jasmine framework.

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Jasmine Cookbook: Over 35 recipes to design and develop Jasmine tests to produce world-class JavaScript applications

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