Recently had the opportunity to do pair programming on a project at work. Paring has proven to be invaluable in passing knowledge over to other developers on the team. It is in this paring that I was exposed to Jasmine test behavior development. Jasmine was developed at Pivotal Labs back in 2001, and was the first unit testing framework for JavaScript. I won't go into why you should be doing test or behavior driven development, but if your company has adopted the Agile methodology, Jasmine fits nicely into the flow of the Agile process. It gives you the additional security knowing that if at some point in the future someone updates your JavaScript, unless the test suite is updated as well things will begin to break. The Suite or Spec Conceptually, a suite or spec is a bunch of related tests clubbed together with an expected result or outcome. Suites or specs are defined with the global "describe" function. This describes what is being tested. The describe function
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