There seems to be a tendency for developers to do an excellent job of unit testing their server-side code but leaving client-side javascript as the new “spaghetti” dumping ground and it doesn’t have to be that way! Jasmine is a nifty Javascript BDD testing framework with a RSpec-like syntax that …
Testing UIs generated with JavaScript is a challenging task, and especially so on mobile devices. Since Siesta is designed to help you test Ext JS and Sencha Touch, it knows about the Sencha Touch infrastructure (stores, components, etc) which is essential to writing robust tests. Learn how to write a …
Why is it that every web build system needs you to adapt to its way of working? Why do you have to write manifest files, put files into a specific directory structure and do a lot of manual work to have an optimized production build of your web site. If …
YUI engineer Reid Burke discusses the development of the next version of Yeti, the automated test runner for tests written using YUI Test. Yeti is a command-line tool for launching JavaScript unit tests in a browser and reporting the results without leaving your terminal. Yeti is designed to work with …
Javascript has, over the years, developed into the de facto standard for bringing interactivity to web pages. But, as web pages evolve into complete user interfaces, more and more logic shifts from the server to the Javascript client. This creates a real need for solid test coverage for Javascript code. …
The Ruby community has become obsessed with testing, we aim for TDD all the fucking time, and 100% code coverage. Yet in our applications, our JavaScript lingers, untested and unrefactored, one giant blob of DOM manipulation and absence of structure. In this class I will teach you practical tools to …
