JB - javascriptTests.bind(reality)

interesting idea to keep markup in sync between fixtures and real mark up #jasmine

Javascript tests are good, but manually-maintained HTML fixtures are painful. It's time consuming to keep fixture markup in sync with the actual markup produced by your app. Despite best efforts, deviations arise, leading to bugs and false positives in tests. For the past few months on Mavenlink , we've been pre-generating real-life fixture markup and making it available in our javascript tests. Results have been positive. The basic approach is simple: 1) Pre-generate real-life markup using any convenient mechanism. 2) When javascript tests run, load the pre-baked markup into the DOM for access by JS code. For #1, we use a small set of RSpec controller specs that exist solely to generate fixtures. For #2, we retrieve fixture markup from our Jasmine server via ajax, and inject it into the DOM with jQuery. While our approach leans on the various bits of our stack, any part o...

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