Caffeine and Testing

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…

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”

My very personal Javascript Fatigue: the truth about JS testing

Trying to write this as a 2007 blog post: personal, not so politically correct. (I’m not involved in JS politics by the way)

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 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:

Mocha v4 Nears Release

Mocha’s next major release has breaking changes — see if your tests will be…

An Introduction to Unit Testing

Unit testing, it sounds nice, doesn’t it? But what is it? And how do you do it?

Testing Is Caring

Mocha.js

Testing provides checkpoints for your project to reach, exceed and look back on. While it’s tempting to think that it’s there only to catch bugs, that’s actually not really the case. The tests are written by humans who are just as fallible as those who…