On the Refinery29 Mobile Web Team, codenamed "Bicycle", all of our unit tests are written using Jasmine, an awesome BDD library written by Pivotal Labs. We recently switched how we set up data for tests from declaring and assigning to closures, to assigning properties to each test case's this object, and we've seen some awesome benefits from doing such.
Up until recently, a typical unit test for us looked something like this:
describe('views.Card', function() {
| Started GET "/api/v2/searches/autocomplete_term?source=web&warehouse_id=5&zone_id=9" for ::1 at 2015-03-16 13:54:41 -0700 | |
| Processing by Api::V2::SearchesController#autocomplete_term as JSON | |
| Parameters: {"source"=>"web", "warehouse_id"=>"5", "zone_id"=>"9"} |
| <form action="/friends" method="POST"> | |
| <input type="text" name="lastname"> | |
| <button type="submit">Submit</button> | |
| </form> |
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <script> | |
| var score = 0; | |
| function computeScore(outcome) { | |
| if(outcome) { |
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.7.0/underscore-min.js"></script> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <script> | |
| var numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]; | |
| var randomNumbers = _.shuffle(numbers, numbers.length); |
| /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| INTERACTING WITH THE USER INTERFACE | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ | |
| // GET HTML (DOM) ELEMENT | |
| // I need to reference an HTML element inside javascript: |
| <h4>Todo List</h4> | |
| <form> | |
| <input name="item"> | |
| <button type="submit">Add Item</button> | |
| </form> | |
| <ul id="todo-items"> | |
| <li>Item 1 <button>x</button></li> | |
| <li>Item 2 <button>x</button></li> | |
| <li>Item 3 <button>x</button></li> | |
| </ul> |
| <div id="todo"></div> | |
| <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.12.2/react.min.js"></script> | |
| <script> | |
| Todo = React.createClass({ | |
| displayName: 'Todo' | |
| , | |
| getInitialState : function() { | |
| return { items: [] }; | |
| } |
| "user" : { | |
| "name" : "John Smith", | |
| "quota" : 100, | |
| "_type" : "Administrator" | |
| } |
| <form> | |
| <input name="item"> | |
| <button type="submit">Add Item</button> | |
| </form> | |
| <ul id="todo-items"> | |
| <li>Item 1</li> | |
| <li>Item 2</li> | |
| <li>Item 3</li> | |
| </ul> |