Synthesis

A couple weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Open Source Bridge conference in Portland Oregon on Agile JavaScript Testing.

In this presentation, I first gave an overview of Test Driven Development for those front-end JS developers who might not have heard of it yet (!) and then the difference of TDD vs. Behavior Driven Development.

I then walked through some tools:

• Screw.Unit, a nice BDD framework for JS that is quite similar to RSpec in Ruby land.

• Blue Ridge, a plugin for rails that integrates Screw-Unit with Rhino and Env.js and some rake tasks to create a command-line driven headless (no-browser == fast) testing workflow.

• JS Test Driver, a project that mounts one or more browsers as slaves, and a command-line tool which notifies all the listening browsers to run tests and aggregates the results. Very cool!

In the actual presentation I even did some live coding examples of Blue Ridge and JS Test Driver, and they worked perfectly. Here are the slides from the talk: