review of PhantomJS Cookbook by Joe Colantonio:
My favorite part:
This is not a book on theory; it is the real lowdown on what works with PhantomJS by someone who has years of hands on experience. Consequently, Rob’s recipes cover the most common scenarios you’ll likely face during your development efforts, so you’ll be learning practical recipes you can put to work right away.
Mission accomplished.
Test Talks #24: Rob Friesel re: The PhantomJS Cookbook: [PODCAST] Wherein Joe Colantonio interviews me about PhantomJS, JavaScript/front-end testing, and my book.
Testing with Casper-Phantom-Mocha-Chai – Anne Writes Code:
A good introductory blog post by Anne Lu about using Mocha (with Chai) in combination with CasperJS. It hits the essential points about using CasperJS, and also shows how simple it is to plug in a third-party test apparatus like Mocha. (Oddly though, her post lacks links to Mocha and Chai and I feel like some readers might get caught off-guard by the “language chains” feature of the casper-chai library.)
Improve Your Tests by Breaking the Rules: Mike Pennisi, writing for the Bocoup blog.
Intentionally provocative? Simple pragmatism? The insane ramblings of a desperate developer? Regardless of your read of this read, we should all aspire to put this ki…
Microservices James Lewis & Martin Fowler: There’s no reason why this same approach [Amazon’s “you built it, you run it”] can’t be taken with monolithic applications, but the smaller granularity of services can make it easier to create the personal relationships between service developers and their users. (tagged: service-oriented architecture SOA ) flexbox in the […]
DalekJS "Automated cross browser testing with JavaScript" … like a not-so-clunk Selenium, perhaps? Looks like an interesting project and worth coming back around to. (tagged: DalekJS browser automation testing ) Extending silent classes in Sass Harry Roberts outlines a technique for using Sass %placeholders that "shadow" their classes, allowing you to better control the output […]
Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS Fairly thorough intro to functional testing with CasperJS, posted on the New Relic blog. (And/but: why someone would use XPath over CSS selectors is puzzling to me…) (tagged: testing CasperJS JavaScript ) modern.IE Testing made easier in Internet Explorer Such a great resource. (tagged: virtual machines Internet Explorer ) How […]
Sass Style Guide By Chris Coyier, writing at CSS-Tricks. I largely agree with this list, but I'm not sure I get the assertion that you should put @includes after "regular" styles. If you're ordering the CSS properties according to some specific scheme (e.g., Zen Ordering) then wouldn't you want the output of your mixins to […]
Evan Hahn did us a favor and slapped together this primer for us: JavaScript Testing with Jasmine: JavaScript Behavior-Driven Development (O’Reilly, 2013). It’s short (around 50 pages), so you can burn through it in an afternoon, but he hits the high notes and (most importantly) provides a clear path for how to get started using […]
Opera Developer News – 300 million users and move to WebKit Big news from Opera. I can't decide if this is a relief, or a disturbing trend toward a kind of WebKit monoculture. These were my mixed feelings, and I had a hard time articulating them. Fortunately, Robert Nyman and John Resig expressed it all […]