5 essential strategies

Why?

• Quickest way to verify that all features ‘work’
• Freedom to experiment

• Manual testing is error prone and time-consuming

  • does not scale
  • people are lazy
  • Hard to test edge cases

Useful tools

• http://javascriptlint.com

  • Validate against multiple browsers

• http://www.mozilla.org/rhino

  • no browser, command line
  • continuous integration
  • no DOM

• Check out python spidermonkey C bindings

• Browser tests

  • Selenium, Windmill
  • hard to automate

• QUnit for JQuery
• http://saucelabs.com/

Strategies

1. Test Data Handlers
2. Test JavaScript
3. Isolate UI for testing

4. Automate UI tests

   • Continuous integration
   • Make it easy

5. Gridify your tests

   • Generate reports
   • Selenium Grid
   • saucelabs.com