Testing async code with Mocha using callbacks and promises

Testing async code with Mocha using callbacks is pretty straight forward, all you need to do is pass the done function down the callback chain and ensure it is executed after your last assertion:

Testing with Mocha/Chai/Sinon: Quick Start Guide

If you aren’t in the habit already, writing tests for your code is an excellent way to stay disciplined as a software engineer on any project. If you don’t think that it’s worth your time, but wish you had a way to thoroughly check your code as…

Testing React & Redux Applications

Just like everything in the JavaScript world, there are 100s of different testing utilities to…

Getting started with mocha

getting set up and using with Travis CI

So you’ve written…

Testing React— Mocha, Expect, Enzyme, JSDOM, and Webpack

The enzyme documents are great, but can be somewhat confusing. This blog post will have an example set-up using the above stack and a link to my ‘examples’ repo.

How to test your Meteor.js web app using Chimp, Cucumber and Jasmine

After sharing my struggle in finding the right tools and from-scratch procedures; I provide simple instructions to test your Meteor…

Testing ES6 Modules with Mocha using Babel with Browserify

When writing JavaScript applications or websites a lot of developers write unit tests to ensure the code does what it is supposed to do. The hottest code uses ES6 and transpiles to ES5 with Babel. Mocha is pretty popular as a…

Javascript: Pure functions helped simplify unit testing for me.

On Unit Testing

In the past few years, I’ve done kind of a 180° on unit tests.

There are a lot of really easy ways to rationalize not testing your code, and I’m probably guilty of saying each of them at one point or another.

• “It takes too much time”

Javascript testing for the 21st century

Tests are absolutely a must. Without tests, it is not possible to evolve software.