The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
. It aims to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform, to not intrude on the application nor the IDE
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
, and to have easy-to-read syntax. It is heavily influenced by other unit testing frameworks, such as ScrewUnit, JSSpec, JSpec, and RSpec
RSpec
RSpec is a behavior driven development framework for the Ruby programming language, inspired by JBehave. It contains its own mocking framework that is fully integrated into the framework based upon JMock...
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Usage
Jasmine aims to be easy to read. A simple hello world test looks like this:
describe('Hello world', function {
it('says hello', function {
expect(helloWorld).toEqual("Hello world!");
});
});
Jasmine has a number of other features, such as custom matchers, spies, and support for asynchronous specifications.
