Jasmine Cookbook

Chapter 5. Jasmine Spies

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Writing Jasmine tests using the spyOn() method and special matchers for spies
• Writing Jasmine tests using tracking properties
• Writing Jasmine tests with your own custom spy method
• Using jasmine.any and jasmine.objectContaining
• Writing Jasmine tests to mock the JavaScript timeout functions

Introduction

The primary objective of unit testing is to test a method, object, or component in isolation and see how it behaves in different circumstances. However, there are situations where a method/object has dependencies on other methods or objects. In this scenario, we need to design tests/specs across the units/methods or components to validate behavior or simulate a real-time scenario. However, due to ...