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Better Jasmine Tests With this

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.

The old way

Up until recently, a typical unit test for us looked something like this:

describe('views.Card', function() {

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We create an index with:

• two filters: synonyms_expand and synonyms_contract
• two analyzers: synonyms_expand and synonyms_contract
• three text fields:
  • text_1 uses the synonyms_expand analyzer at index and search time
  • text_2 uses the synonyms_expand analyzer at index time, but the standard analyzer at search time
  • text_3 uses the synonyms_contract analyzer at index and search time

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