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Unit Testing in JavaScript. Introduction

| Wednesday, March 17, 2010
JavaScript is mainly (but not only!) clientside language. Therefore it poses some problems for developers who use unit testing in their projects. I’m going to point out most of them and solve bit by bit in next articles. If you don’t need explanation of this term itself, proceed right to the JavaScript Issues title.
Unit Testing

In short: We’re writing tests for our application which are independent of each other. We may quickly execute set of them as we modify the code. The new application is error-free if all go positively.

Unit Testing is connected with Agile methodology and techniques of producing a software such as Extreme Programming (XP) or Test-driven development (TDD). They assume that changes in application should be made frequently and in small portions. Unfortunately, it’s equivalent to frequent errors. Thanks to Unit Testing we are able to detect them rapidly.
Test-driven development

"My team has created very innovative solution, but we’re still looking for a problem to go with it."

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