Chapter 15. Legacy JavaScript
Michael Feathers defines legacy code as code without tests [WEwLC]. JavaScript and other dynamic languages benefit from tests by exercising a wider range of the dynamic behaviors that sometimes make them behave in unanticipated ways. Open-source projects benefit from tests so that multiple contributors can make changes without each having to be intimately familiar with all behaviors.
In contrast, open-source JavaScript projects without tests survive through simplicity or a small number of immersed maintainers, and often both. Increasingly, open-source JavaScript projects include tests, but some very useful and popular projects remain without them.
The jQuery Timepicker Addon1 by Trent Richardson is one such project. ...
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