Behaviour Driven Development with Jasmine

Katie Fenn

@katie_fenn

PHP / Frontend Engineer

What is Behaviour Driven Development?

How can Jasmine help?

TDD

But what does that mean?

A focus on design behaviours

A much bigger problem

Ubiquitous language

Language shared by stakeholders and team-members alike

Specifications

Writing specifications that can prove the compliance of software

A tour of nine Jasmine features

Testing a simple JQuery timer plugin

2. It

4. Before Each

5. The Spec Runner

Hooray!

6. Mocking

And the Jasmine clock mock

Beware!

You can't use this with the Jasmine clock mock.

9. Exceptions

Wrapping Up

The Timer

See the test runner

Useful Links

• http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/Jasmine Docs
• http://sinonjs.org/Sinon.JS - Mocking utilities
• https://github.com/netzpirat/guard-jasmineGuard-Jasmine - Headless tests in the CLI

Thank You

Me

@katie_fenn

Slides

http://katiefenn.co.uk/talks/jasmine-talk

We're hiring

http://inviqa.com/careers/

Behaviour Driven Development and Jasmine by Katie Fenn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.