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JavaScript Unit Testing

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Introduction

1:27 with Guil Hernandez and Joseph Fraley

In this course you’ll practice a way to write JavaScript called Behavior Driven Development -- or BDD.

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  • Tests help us understand the code we want to write -- like an outline
  • Tests let us know if our code behaves the way we want it to behave
  • Tests tell us when we’ve accidentally broken something
  • "Unit tests" focus on small, meaningful chunks of functionality
  • Good unit tests are easy to understand

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    The material in this course assumes you know your way around JavaScript objects, 0:00
    node, and mpm. 0:04
    So make sure you complete all the prerequisites for 0:05
    this course before continuing. 0:08
    And if you wanna brush up on some of those videos, I've included the links and 0:09
    the teacher's notes as well. 0:14
    In this course, you'll practice a way to write JavaScript called, 0:15
    Behavior Driven Development or BDD. 0:20
    In BDD we write special functions, called tests, for 0:22
    our application before we actually write any real code. 0:26

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