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Aka NineCollective Jasmine Testing

Setting up Jasmine In Command Prompt type

InstallGems.bat

Rebuilding for test run If you make changes to or create a new

viewModel run rake asset:compress in Git Bash. This will later be done automatically.

Run the test server To set up the server and run the tests

type rake js:server. This will run the test server.

Getting the port number You find the port number for localhost

after you run js:server

Capturing the Browser In your browser go to localhost:port

number. Click Capture the Browser

Captured Browser

Run the tests Type rake js:run in a different Git Bash

to run the tests.

Auto running Jasmine tests on file change

Instead of rake js:run you can do rake js:auto to run the tests automatically if you have growl installed

Must have Growl installed and running. www.growlforwindows.com

Setting up a Spec It() sets up a spec for testing. To create a Spec you would type

it(‘Meaningful Description’ function () { code to run goes inside here.})

Inside the Spec you would use expect( Item to Test ) . Matcher to use.

You can disable a Spec by using xit() instead of it().

Setting up a Suite Group your specs into suites. To set up a Suite you use describe(). The suite set up looks like this

describe( ‘Suite name’, function () { Then a call do the different Specs you will be testing }).

The Suite name will be reported when Spec is ran.

Suites are ran in the order that the describe calls are made.

Setting up a Suite (cont.) You can call variables within a describe

block that are accessible by the Specs If you create a global variable it will not

be reset between each Spec call. To initialize a variable between each

Spec use beforeEach(). Suites can be nested. You can disable a Suite by using

xdescribe() instead of describe().

Matchers Matchers are used to test a certain

outcome. You can define your own Matchers to

assert a more specific expectation. A matcher function gets the value from

this.actual. You can pass as many arguments as

you want into the function call. It returns a Boolean value.

The way we use Jasmine We use nested Suites to test each part. descirbe({

Describe({○ Describe({○ })})