Unit Testing and Test Driven Development in NodeJS

Learning the discipline of Test Driven Development (also known as TDD) in NodeJS with Javascript.

What you'll learn:

• Students will know what unit tests are and how to create them using the practice of Test Driven Development.

Test Driven Development is a key discipline every software developer should practice to ensure the quality of their code. In this course I'll show you how to use this discipline in your everyday coding practices to help ensure the quality of your code base.

• In this course we’ll be going over:

  • What is Unit Testing and Test Driven Development and how does it help you.

  • What are the Mocha and Chai testing libraries and how are they used for writing unit tests in NodeJS.

  • How to setup some common NodeJSdevelopment environments to use Mocha and Chai.

  • What are Test Doubles and how do you implementand usethem with Sinon.

  • What are some Best Practices for unit testing and Test Driven Development.

  • We’ll also walk through some hands onexample programming sessions using TDD in NodeJS.