JavaScript Testing

Overview

This course consists of 2 lessons. In the first lesson, you'll discover the importance of testing and reconsider its purpose and the value it provides. In the second lesson, you'll explore the Jasmine testing framework write your own test suites while developing an address book application.

Lesson 1: Rethinking Testing

From education to aerospace, tests provide invaluable feedback to those that analyze the results. In this lesson, you'll learn all about the importance of testing, how to identify the expectations a test is attempting to validate and how to write expectations in code. **Topics covered:** * What is a test? * Validating opinions * Identifying and defining expectations * Writing expectations in code

Lesson 2: Writing Test Suites

JavaScript doesn't support testing natively, so you'll need a framework to provide the functionality you need. In this lesson, you'll get an introductions to the Jasmine testing framework and use the red-green-refactor workflow to begin development on an address book application. **Topics covered:** * Introduction to Jasmine * Writing suites, specs and tests * The red-green-refactor workflow cycle * Testing asynchronous functionality

• Michael Wales - Michael is a self-taught full-stack web developer and open source advocate. Before joining Udacity, he spent over 10 years developing classified applications for some of the most demanding intelligence organizations in the world. He has an active Top Secret clearance and, unless you have one as well, that's all you're allowed to know. In his spare time he enjoys playing paintball, video games, and spending time with his 3 wonderful children.