README.md

Test-Driven JavaScript Development Book

Code & personal notes of the book Test Driven JavaScript Development by Christian Johansen.

Book site

https://www.tddjs.com/

Summaries

• Chapter 01. Automated Testing
• Chapter 02. The TDD Process
• Chapter 03. Tools of the Trade
• Chapter 04. Test to Learn
• Chapter 05. Functions
• Chapter 06. Applied Functions and Closures
• Chapter 07. Objects and Prototypal Inheritance
• Chapter 08. ECMAScript 5th Edition
• Chapter 09. Unobtrusive JavaScript
• Chapter 10. Feature Detection
• Chapter 11. The Observer Pattern
• Chapter 12. Abstracting Browser Differences: Ajax
• Chapter 13. Streaming Data with Ajax and Comet
• Chapter 14. Server-Side JavaScript with Node.js
• Chapter 15. TDD and DOM Manipulation: The Chat Client
• Chapter 16. Mocking and Stubbing
• Chapter 17. Writing Good Unit Tests

Tests

Install Mocha.js globally

npm install --global mocha

Run xUnit specs

Only for chapters 1 and 2. Ignores the usage of mocha command

npm run test:spec

Run Mocha tests

npm run test

Benchmarks

Loops (Chapter 04):

npm run bench:loops

Fibonacci (Chapter 06):

npm run bench:fibonacci

Loops with timeout (Chapter 06):

node ./06-applied-functions-and-closures/benchmarks/loops-timeout.js