Category Archives: testing

I can’t resist jumping on the band-wagon and telling people that they’re wrong, so here goes… Mark “Ploeh” Seemann wrote a post on testing trivial code. There have been several responses saying he’s wrong and that you shouldn’t test trivial … Continue reading →

I created the Should library to fill a gap in the testing ecosystem in the .Net space.  Simply put, I took what I liked about using extension methods to make a more readable set of assertions, but made the library … Continue reading →

This post is mostly here to share a link. Jeremy Miller posted ‘“Code Complete” is a polite fiction, “Done, done, done” is the hard truth‘. Before clicking through I thought I was going to disagree. After reading through, I agree … Continue reading →

Not being much of a fan of the Repository pattern, or better yet, not a fan of applying it as a universal data access strategy, one question that comes up often is “but what about testing”? But the question should … Continue reading →

Someone recently asked me whether I prefer Jasmine or Mocha for unit testing JavaScript. My answer is: Jasmine and Mocha are both great. I use both, depending on the project and team. There’s a great community around both, and you’ll … Continue reading →

Databases in tests is an annoying, yet necessary component if you truly want to create accurate integration tests. I’m not too much of a fan of employing alternate databases in tests (SQLite in place of SQL Server), simply because I … Continue reading →

Before I get in to the guts of this post, you need to read Christopher Bennage’s post on how we have our Mocha test suite set up for our Win8 / WinJS project. It’s not the best setup, but it … Continue reading →

My 2nd screencast at WatchMeCode.net is now online, and is free! WatchMeCode Episode 2: The Jasmine Standalone Runner In this episode, I cover the basics of JavaScript testing with the Jasmine-BDD test framework, showing how to install and use the … Continue reading →

I’ve been writing some Jasmine specs for a sample Backbone.js application that I’m building. The application is a simple image gallery, and one of the features is the ability to navigate to through the image list with ‘next’ and ‘previous’ … Continue reading →