Node.js in the wild

Testing Node.js Code

November 14, 2012 · 7:00 PM
Brightcove Office

Quick testing overview (Jesse Streb)

TDD vs BDD
Unit vs Integration test

Frameworks

Mocha - (Jesse Streb)
qUnit - (Gleb Bahmutov)
Casper (Tyler Renelle)
Jasmine (Daniel Rinehart)

Code coverage (Daniel Rinehart)
Discussion points

How does selenium fit in?
headless vs browser?

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Robert Hall

I couldn't make it, but I'd love to watch a video/slideshow. Was there any takeaway?

0 · November 15
- Daniel Rinehart
  
  Automated testing is good, just do it, doesn't matter what framework you use as all are capable. Istanbul is an awesome tool for code coverage.
  
  0 · November 15
Nate Morse

Good variety pack of presentations.

0 · November 15
Jesse Streb

I too would be very interested in seeing a talk on this. I have been using Jasmine for my unit tests and Jasmine+Phantom for my integration tests; curious to hear more about others experiences. If we have members with experience in a subset of these frameworks perhaps we could break up the presentation into a different speaker for the each framework. Something like 15 min. for a short overview of each. If you have experience in any of these frameworks and are willing to present, please chime in.

0 · September 19
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- Tyler Renelle
  
  I"ll have a bit to say about CasperJS by then, but if anyone considers themselves knowledgable on the topic I will concede to them. I'm a Casper neophyte.
  
  0 · September 19
- Tyler Renelle
  
  I'm down to do some on Casper & Mocha, have had some experience recently.
  
  0 · September 26
- James Morrin
  
  I have been running tests in phantom, and more recently I have started using selenium web driver in node to run tests cross browser and in parallel.
  
  0 · September 30
- gleb bahmutov
  
  I've been using qunit+phantomjs, and this weekend wrote my own framework to mimic qunit but be compatible with Istanbul JS coverage module. Could show that.
  
  0 · October 29
Jeff Whelpley

I like The topic of TDD more than hosting. I vote to keep it as is.

0 · October 29
Tyler Renelle

Two "oh crap"s about this meetup:

1) I accidentally put it on the 14th, which is the 2nd Wed of Nov (we usually do 3rd). Shall I update to the 21st, or just leave it since a buncha people RSVP'd?

2) Tim knows Jasmine, I know Casper, but not many have chimed in on other bits for comparison. We *could* introduce the general concept of TDD/BDD using Jasmine & Casper as the vehicle, that's an option. We could alternatively do a different topic: Node.js PaaS and hosting comparisons (Heroku, NodeJistu, Nodester, EC2, etc). Tim put up a Poll at http://www.meetup.com/Node-js-i..., let's have a vote!

0 · October 18
- Tim Walling
  
  I believe I moved it to the 14th because that 3rd Wed is Thanksgiving week and we thought it was better to have it the week before.
  
  0 · October 18
- Tyler Renelle
  
  ah, yes
  
  0 · October 18
Tyler Renelle changed the date and time from Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 8:52 PM to Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 7:00 PM

September 26
Tyler Renelle

Adding date as next meeting after framework smackdown? (3rd wed Nov). just suggestion, feel free to change

0 · September 26
Tyler Renelle changed the location to Brightcove Office

September 26