Jasmine Cookbook

by Munish Sethi

Over 35 recipes to design and develop Jasmine tests to produce world-class JavaScript applications 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. Jasmine provides a rich set of libraries to design and develop tests for JavaScript applications. Its tests aim to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform and have easy-to-read syntax. This book is a comprehensive guide to designing and developing Jasmine tests to produce world-class software. The recipes are elaborated using examples from a real-world application, which involves various aspects of designing and developing tests from simple to complex level. You will learn how to create tests for jQuery and Ajax, HTML and JSON fixtures, CoffeeScript, and AngularJS. By learning and applying the best practices throughout this book, you can deliver your applications with zero defects and ensure success for you and your clients.

265 pages, Paperback

First published April 24, 2015

Reviews

[Arun Mahendrakar]

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.

[Ilyes Hachani]

The last few chapters feel a bit rushed. Other than that this is a good read.