Friday, March 27, 2009

JavaScript Unit Testing Frameworks

Not only should you have unit tests for your User Interface & Middle Tier code, but you should also consider unit testing your JavaScript code.

There are several different Unit Testing frameworks made for JavaScript that you have to choose from.

Note: In future posts I will show examples of how to use each of these frameworks… as for now, this is just an introduction to the tools I’ll be covering.

Framework Description
YUI Test

YUI Test is a testing framework for browser-based JavaScript solutions. Using YUI Test, you can easily add unit testing to your JavaScript solutions. While not a direct port from any specific xUnit framework, YUI Test does derive some characteristics from