Frontend Testing

Test All The Things: Code hinting, unit testing, functional testing.

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1. Test all the things! Code hinting Unit testing Functional testing
2. Frontend :( • Testing is hard weird • Not sure what to test • TIMTOWTDI
3. How I learned to stop worrying and love tests.
4. Why How I learned to stop worrying and love tests.
5. editor holy war hard vs soft tabs code readability syntax consistency team.length > 1
6. comments are lies documentation is fiction intent !== effect document behaviour, not implementation // this is not a doc
7. downtime is $ never deploy a broken app env.production = true;
8. N builds / day triggered by any developer who broke the build? ship it
9. Then how?
10. It's the little things: line length, camel casing, tabs/spaces, ... Benevolent dictator of syntax JSHint
11. nodeunit DRY bug fixing Behaviour is documented, implementation is verified. "How did that utility work again?"
12. CasperJS Run high-level tests on a headless WebKit "Do all our features still work?"
13. Demo https://github.com/cbas/demo-testing https://travis-ci.org/cbas/demo-testing
14. I am Sebastiaan I email seb@cf.sg I blog ninja.sg I work cf.sg I code git.io/seb