test your nodejs code an opinionated introduction by Damien Klinnert

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whois damienklinnert

student of computer science

works at doctape

jsdev since beginning of 2012

follow me @damienklinnert

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unit tests???

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what is it?

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advantages of unit tests

JS is a dynamic language

additional lines of code, but less errors

continous integration -> less errors over time

NOT THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING

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test your nodejs code

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tools

mocha

should

npm

couchviews

couchpenter

nock

travis-ci

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tools/mocha

feature-rich JavaScript test framework

many different test outputs

can create documentation

only a few keywords to remember like:

describe(), it(), before(), after(), beforeEach(), afterEach()

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tools/should

expressive, readable, test framework agnostic, assertion library

extends the Object prototype

should … exist, have.keys, equal, throwError()

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tools/npm

npm comes with script support

no need for makefiles for common tasks like "run all tests" or "generate docs"

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demo time

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tools/couchviews

Store and load CouchDB views to / from your file system for easier setup of new databases

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tools/couchpenter

CouchDB database and document setup tool

CLI to setup new couchdb‘s from a json file

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tools/nock

HTTP HTTP mocking library

create api test environments

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tools/travis-ci

A hosted continuous integration service for the open source community.

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readinghttp://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/

https://github.com/visionmedia/should.js/

https://npmjs.org/doc/

https://github.com/damienklinnert/couchviews

https://github.com/cliffano/couchpenter

https://github.com/flatiron/nock

http://travis-ci.org/16

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thank you

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