Jasmine Cookbook

Chapter 2. Jasmine with TDD and BDD Processes

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Writing Jasmine tests using TDD and BDD processes
• Creating a Jasmine test for new code using TDD and BDD
• Designing Jasmine tests for existing code using TDD and BDD
• Defining nested suites to write more meaningful specs

Introduction

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development process based on Test-Driven Development (TDD). Before we start writing Jasmine tests using TDD and BDD, let's get a briefing of how both processes work and how they play a pivotal role in software development.

TDD is a unit testing based test-first or fail-first approach where we write the test before writing the code. Thereafter, we write the minimum amount of code just to pass the test. ...