Investigate testing options for front-end

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Investigate testing options for front-end #579

Closed mtorres253 closed 8 years ago

mtorres253 commented 8 years ago

Q-unit, jasmine, mocha chai as options? This story is to investigate a framework for unit testing.

ertzeid commented 8 years ago

Summary of what I've found:

Jasmine, Mocha, and QUnit seem to be the most popular frameworks.
While Mocha does work for all frameworks, it doesn't include its own matchers.
Jasmine looks like the most popular overall, based on GitHub stars (10k, vs 8k for Mocha and 3k for QUnit)

Based on the above and the Front End Guild's recommendation to favor more popular tools (https://pages.18f.gov/frontend/recommendations/ under "Choosing a Tool"), I recommend using Jasmine for JavaScript testing.

ertzeid commented 8 years ago

... Does this story include setting up the framework? I can't remember what we discussed. cc: @mtorres253

mtorres253 commented 8 years ago

I believe this is done @ertzeid? If so can you move to done?