I needed to stub out a Backbone collection’s fetch method and make it return success. I’m using Jasmine BDD for the testing framework and Sinon.js for stubbing the methods. Here’s how I did it: (more…)
In my new job, I’m trying to start things out right — behavior-driven, test-driven, “cutting-edge” tools (whatever the hell that means), etc. I’ve gone through the new Rspec book (review to come) and used Cucumber and Rspec on my Rails app. I recently re-did the front-end with Backbone.js (and I am ready to marry it) and now I’m testing the javascript with Jasmine and Sinon.js.
I was rolling happily along writing tests for my Backbone.js controllers, collections and models with Jasmine/Sinon.js. Then I got to views and hit a wall. Why? Well, I’m using Jammit to package my assets for production. This is cool and all for individual javascript files as I’m also adding them to my jasmine.yml config file. The problem is that Jammit is packaging my haml templates into a global JST object and I need to access those templates, and more importantly, that global JST object when testing my view code. (more…)
Using Cucumber and Rspec for the first time has been … a little frustrating. I followed along with the main tutorial in The Rspec Book and then skimmed the later chapters. I thought it was quite good until I had to start testing an actual rails app and felt a little at a loss. But I digress … (more…)
