Techniques for Test-Driving Your JavaScript: New on Premium
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Techniques for Test-Driving Your JavaScript: New on Premium

on Apr 9th 2012 with 14 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Technologies: JavaScript, Grunt, QUnit
  • Difficulty: Intermediate - Advanced
  • Format: 45 Minute Screencast

In this hands-on Premium screencast, from scratch, we’ll use test-driven development to build a jQuery plugin. Along the way, we’ll take advantage of Grunt, QUnit, and GitHub to build, test, and distribute our plugin, respectively. If the idea of testing in JavaScript is still foreign to you, you won’t find a better introduction!

Become a Tuts+ Premium member to watch this 45 minute screencast, as well as hundreds of other advanced videos, tutorials, and courses.

You’ll Learn How to:

  • Use Ben Alman’s Grunt build tool to expedite the process of generating and building new plugins
  • Take a test-driven approach to creating jQuery plugins – using QUnit
  • Distribute code in seconds with GitHub

Of course, you’re likely to pick up a variety of other neat tips and tricks along the way!

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I hope you’ll consider checking it out! In addition to learning a huge variety of new skills, it’s also a fantastic way to say thank you to Nettuts+.

 
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  • http://www.dracoli.com Draco

    i needed this!

  • http://wouterj.nl Wouter J

    Why are all good unit testing tuts on tuts+ premium?? I really want to start with unit testing, but I can’t find a good tutorial.

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      It’s not that expensive. :)

      • http://eduardorabelo.com.br Eduardo Rabelo

        and really helpful ;)

      • Shawn

        Really? not that expensive? Ok sure $20 by itself isn’t all that much. but per month just to read some tutorials that i could find elsewhere in the net by another author. Yea $20 is kind of pricey for something many many free tutorials offer. I pay for a lot of my services, and this site has a lot of good tutes (so dont get me wrong i really like this site). But $20/mo isn’t going to happen. I have a printed book entirely on JS unit testing I got for $15 from amazon which is quite good.

      • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
        Author

        Shawn – Nobody is forcing you. You got a unit testing book on Amazon for $15. Great.

        Well we have a very similar course coming shortly – and we also have countless tutorials, dozens of courses (with 5+ new ones every month), and bunches of ebooks. We also actively help members on our forums.

        If you can’t afford it, then fine. But the service is a great deal. I spend more on lunch.

      • Travis Watson

        Nobody is forcing you to keep the subscription forever, either. Personally, I’ve been sleuthing the site for about a year, and finally bought the premium subscription last month. I have found the information within to be well worth the $20/month. I feel that it’s higher quality than the free tutorials; meaning I can learn more in less time, all in one place. When it comes right down to it, my time is worth much more than this subscription. If yours isn’t, that’s cool. But this service is definitely worth it.

        Top notch work to all the Tuts+ Premium contributors!

      • Seth

        Spoken from something with no kids. $19/month is a lot when you are canceling other things to make room for a growing family. How about after X months these premium tutorials become free?

      • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
        Author

        Hi Seth – It’s honestly just a matter of how much we need to charge in order to cover the considerable costs of organizing and creating these courses, ebooks, etc. It’s not for everybody.

      • http://www.venture-ware.com/kevin Kevin Jensen

        I could see your point of view if you were getting access to only one tutorial, but the fact is that you get access to all of the premium content with that $19/month. Remember that it includes tutorials from all the the Envato sites. As a freelance web developer investing $19/month for access to tutorials that will help every aspect of your development (Web development, mobile development, taking photos, Photoshop, etc.) and overall appeal is not that much.

  • http://pressedweb.com Cory

    Been waiting on this. :)

    The thumbnail is awesome too. That guy has a million of them on GraphicRiver.

  • http://wouterj.nl Wouter J

    Very usefull!

    But the ‘paul irish pink color’ on select doesn’t match with the colors on the page. Replace it with the ‘tuts+’ orange color or something else.

    • http://wouterj.nl Wouter J

      Wrong post. sorry. Delete the post…

  • http://blood-game-spot.blogspot.com The Joke R

    Wow, incredible weblog format! How lengthy have you been running a blog for? you make blogging look easy. The total look of your site is fantastic, let alone the content!