Test Driven JavaScript Development

Test-Driven JavaScript DevelopmentUsing real-life examples driven by unit tests, Johansen shows how to use TDD to gain greater confidence in your code base, so you can fearlessly refactor and build more robust, maintainable, and reliable JavaScript code at lower cost. Throughout, he addresses crucial issues ranging from code design to performance optimization, offering realistic solutions for developers, QA specialists, and testers.

Preface

Part I: Test-Driven Development

Chapter 1: Automated Testing

Chapter 2: The Test Driven Development Process

Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade

Chapter 4: Test to Learn

Part II: JavaScript for Programmers

Chapter 5: Functions

Chapter 6: Applied Functions and Closures

Chapter 7: Objects and Prototypal Inheritance

Chapter 8: ECMAScript 5th Edition

Chapter 9: Unobtrusive JavaScript

Chapter 10: Feature Detection

Part III: Real-World Test Driven Development in JavaScript

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

Part IV: Testing Patterns

Chapter 16: Mocking and Stubbing

Chapter 17: Writing Good Unit Tests

Index