jasmine.md

Jasmine

• Jasmine is a unit testing framework. We will be using it to pass test cases to our algorithms to see if your algorithms return the expected result.

Setup

• you must have Node.js installed

Clone a repo that already has jasmine initialized

1. git clone URL/TO/REPO.git (url can be found on the repos GitHub page by clicking the top right code button)
   • this will create a new folder at the location your terminal is open to, the folder will be named after the repository
2. cd repo_name
3. npm i to install the dependencies (jasmine) listed in the package.json that came the cloned project.

Initialize a new project and install jasmine

1. If you haven't already, run: npm init in your algos project folder
2. npm i jasmine
   • this should have created a package.json file that has jasmine and version number listed in it.
3. copy over the spec folder, or to create your own

Run Jasmine

• add the following to package.json

  • "scripts": {
      "test": "node_modules/.bin/jasmine"
    },

    • this allows you to run npm test in the terminal open to your project folder
    • alternatively, to test a single Spec file: npm test path/to/fileNameSpec.js
      • you can type npm test with a space after test, then drag and drop the file after the space to auto fill the path