JavaScript Testing Beginner’s Guide is a new book from Packt that will help readers to test and debug JavaScript the easy way. Written by Liang Yuxian Eugene, this book will teach readers to use different techniques to test JavaScript, and to discover the most important tools to make their debugging task less painful. This book will also assist readers to automate their testing process by using external testing tools.
JavaScript is an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It can be characterized as a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions.
JavaScript Testing Beginner’s Guide teaches users the most basic functions of JavaScript to perform ad hoc testing quickly and efficiently. In addition to this, users will learn different types of errors encountered in JavaScript along with the most essential features, the implementation of a test plan for their code and better ways of testing it, and to write better and faster JavaScript code.
Using this book, developers will learn the relationship between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, how to validate their JavaScript code, different testing concepts including testing the user interface controlled by JavaScript, how to debug their code using various tools such as Google Chrome and Firefox’s Venkman Extension, and testing more complex code by using JavaScript’s exception handling.
Organized in an easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial style to maximize learning,this example-driven guide is ideal for beginner JavaScript developers, who are looking for essential ways to write, test, and debug JavaScript for different purposes and situations. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: https://www.packtpub.com/javascript-testing-beginners-guide/book
