Backbone.js Testing -- Table of Contents -- Backbone.js Testing -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Setting Up a Test Infrastructure -- Designing an application and test repository structure -- Getting the test libraries -- Mocha -- Chai -- Sinon.JS -- Setting up and writing our first tests -- The test driver page -- Adding some tests -- Running and assessing test results -- The first test report -- Test report actions -- Test timing and slow tests -- Test failures -- Summary -- 2. Creating a Backbone.js Application Test Plan -- A Backbone.js refresher -- Selecting a Backbone.js application to test -- Getting acquainted with the Notes application -- The anatomy of the Notes application -- Test paradigms and methods -- Testing concepts, approaches, and planning -- Testing individual Backbone.js components -- Models -- Collections -- Templates -- Views -- Routers -- Utilities -- Testing application interactions and events -- Partial integrations -- Events -- Dipping our toes in the application testing waters -- Namespace -- Note model -- Running the application tests -- Summary -- 3. Test Assertions, Specs, and Suites -- Choosing a test style that fits -- Mocha test interfaces -- Chai assertion styles -- Trying out some different styles -- Mocha and Chai BDD interfaces -- Mocha TDD and Chai assert styles -- Deciding on the project style -- A tour of the Chai assertion library -- Chaining objects and assertions -- Basic value assertions -- Comparing values -- Object and array validation -- Errors.

Getting the application and tests ready to run -- The Mocha test runner -- Reconfiguring the application for testing -- Organizing topics and specifications into test suites -- Starting up and winding down tests -- Writing Mocha test specifications -- Asynchronous behavior in tests -- Some Backbone.js collection tests -- Testing and supporting Backbone.js views -- The Notes application single note view -- Creating HTML fixtures for view tests -- Walking through the view test suite -- Aggregating and running the application tests -- Test development tips, tricks, and hints -- Isolating and excluding tests -- Writing testable application code -- Summary -- 4. Test Spies -- Fake it 'til you make it -- Getting to know Sinon.JS -- Spying on functions with Sinon.JS -- Anonymous spies -- Spy assertions -- Function spies -- Object method spies -- Playing in the sandbox with Sinon.JS test helpers -- Delving into the Sinon.JS spy API -- The spy API -- The spy call API -- Spicing up Chai with the Sinon.JS plugin -- Introducing and installing Chai plugins -- The Sinon.JS plugin -- Testing Backbone.js components with spies -- The Notes menu bar view -- The menu bar view -- Testing and spying on the menu bar view -- The Notes single note view -- The single note view -- Testing the single note view -- Hooking up and running the view tests -- Summary -- 5. Test Stubs and Mocks -- Replacing method behaviors with Sinon.JS stubs -- Getting started with stubs -- The stub API -- Faking and verifying behavior with Sinon.JS mocks -- Deciding when to mock -- The mock API -- Testing Backbone.js components with stubs and mocks -- Ensuring stubs and mocks are actually bound -- The Notes list item view -- The list item view -- Testing the list item view -- The Notes application router -- Running the view and router tests -- Finding the rest of the Notes application components.

A few more Sinon.JS test helpers -- Fake timers -- Fake servers -- The fake server API -- Faking the remote backend in a Backbone.js application -- Summary -- 6. Automated Web Testing -- The world of testing beyond humans and browsers -- Continuous integration -- Continuous deployment -- Other scenarios -- Automating browser environments -- Remote controlled web browsers -- Simulated browser environments -- Headless web browsers -- Multiple environment aggregators -- Headless testing with PhantomJS -- Installing PhantomJS and the supporting tools -- Running Backbone.js tests with PhantomJS -- Automating tests in the code samples -- Parting thoughts, next steps, and future ideas -- Summary -- Index.