JavaScript unit test framework

This article series contains 4 articles, written between 20 January and 10 February 2013.

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  20 January 2013

  JavaScript unit test framework, part 1 of 4

  For test-driven development (TDD), having a working unit test framework is very useful. Here I start working on my own framework in JavaScript.

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  27 January 2013

  JavaScript unit test framework, part 2 of 4

  My unit test framework in JavaScript is starting to shape up when I add support for asynchronous code, like timers, event handlers and CSS transitions.

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  3 February 2013

  JavaScript unit test framework, part 3 of 4

  Any mature unit test framework contains helper methods for validating or asserting requirements. In this part, I start adding some object-oriented test functions.

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  10 February 2013

  JavaScript unit test framework, part 4 of 4

  In the last part of this series, I add a pluggable output system to my JavaScript unit test framework, so that test results can be displayed nicely, or sent to a server for logging.