For server side developers, the idea of building an application mostly in JavaScript may seem pretty foreign. However, this appears to be a burgeoning trend on the client side. More and more ...

The Tools to Use for Testing JavaScript Now that we’ve covered the main JavaScript rendering issues to test for, let’s examine some of the different tools that can help with your analysis. 1.

At the core of most JavaScript unit testing lies a headless browser, PHATOMJS.EXE. When this browser launches, it hosts HTML that in turn references your JavaScript files. In addition to the ...

The Practical Client Building and Testing a Web API Service As part of building a client-side application in a test-driven way and using TypeScript, Peter creates a Web API service and writes a test ...

Meta is transferring its popular open-source JavaScript testing framework, Jest, to the OpenJS Foundation. Jest is one of Meta's top open-source projects and has proven a popular tool for testing ...

Jest is billed as a comprehensive JavaScript testing solution that works out of the box, configuration-free, for most JavaScript projects. Tests have unique global state and can be run in parallel.

Testing JavaScript code is a slog, especially if you aren't working with the right tools. Jonathan Freeman offers this handy primer for setting up a testing workflow with some of his favorites ...

Besides, testing JavaScript in this way, at least to my mind, gives me a feeling of working on serious software, rather than one or more basic hacks. I should note that the style in which I presented ...

Google has updated its Octane speed test for measuring JavaScript performance, expanding its scope and rounding out the benchmark with computing tasks from rival browser makers Mozilla and ...

Yesterday on Android Community, the results of a benchmark battle between Android 2.2 and iOS4 in a Javascript test were published. Android 2.2 put a serious beat down on iOS4 in the test.