Backbone.js Testing

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed the basics of Backbone.js applications and introduced the Notes application as a helpful, if optional, companion to the test examples in this book. We then reviewed some relevant high-level testing concepts and dived into the specifics of what we will want to test in a Backbone.js application—in separated application pieces and as integrated parts of a whole. Finally, we wrote our first application unit tests and extended the test infrastructure from Chapter 1, Setting Up a Test Infrastructure, to execute our test reporter.

You should now be able to take an existing or in-development Backbone.js application, analyze its components, and create an abstract test infrastructure outline that will later be filled ...