How Testing Can Help You Write Better JavaScript

You’ve heard that testing your code is good, but getting started with testing in JavaScript can be tough. There are a lots of new concepts, new terms, and lots of testings frameworks, all promising to make testing “painless”. But whenever you try to start testing your code, it doesn’t seem painless.

We won’t promise to make testing painless, but like many things, it will be easier to get started and more rewarding to stick with it, if you learn the fundamentals well first.

In this session, we’ll look at three core parts to any testing strategy. We’ll demonstrate testing using nothing but vanilla JavaScript. Then, we’ll show how those concepts show up in a couple of popular JavaScript testing frameworks.

If you’ve never done testing before, or you’ve never done JavaScript testing, or even if you just wish you understood more what your JavaScript testing framework was doing, you’ll learn a lot in this session.

Bio
Van Wilson is a senior UI developer at Cardinal Solutions in Charlotte, NC.

After majoring in Latin and ancient Greek in college, he naturally gravitated to web development, which he has been doing for more than eight years. Van is serious about JavaScript, and about making the web accessible for every person, on any device. His goal is to give all types of users a better experience by making online tasks simpler, quicker, and more predictable.