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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">JavaScript Testing Beginner's Guide - Liang Yuxian Eugene</h1>
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2015-09-10
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/liang-yuxian-eugene/">#liang yuxian eugene</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/javascript/">#javascript</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/tests/">#tests</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/it/">#it</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2010/">#published:2010</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9272372-javascript-testing-beginner-s-guide">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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This book is organized such that only the most essential information is
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provided to you in each chapter so as to maximize your learning. Examples and
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tutorials are given in an easy to follow, step-by-step manner so that you can
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see how the testing process is being carried out and how the code is being
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written. The source code also contains detailed explanation so that you know
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what the code is doing. Multiple screenshots are used in places that matter so
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that you have a visual sense of what is happening. Beginner JavaScript
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developers looking for essential ways to write, test, and debug JavaScript for
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different purposes and situations.</p>
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★☆☆☆☆
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<p>Let me start this by saying that I really liked the structure of the book. For
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each chapter, there is an explanation of what will be covered; a "call for
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action" which shows the code and then describes, step by step, what is going
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on; a further explanation on when running said code; and, finally, some
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pointers on where to go forward.</p>
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<p>That being said, this is a mess of a book. The kindle version is completely
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mangled on the source code. Indentation is completely wrong, which makes the
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code hard to read; the code is full of stupid mistakes (like having an object
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and trying to get it again with <code>getElementById(element.id)</code>); and, generally,
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it's pure bad code (like raising an exception inside a try/catch just to catch
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it afterwards). Not only that, but the book goes incredible lengths to explain
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JavaScript, what are unit tests and such and, just in the last chapter, it
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finally explains JavaScript Testing.</p>
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<p>That wouldn't be so bad if it was a recent book. But it's a book from 2010,
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with no further editions, and a lot has changed in the JavaScript landscape in
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those last 5 years. New frameworks appeared, new tools are here, JavaScript is
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not client side only anymore... The list goes on and on. Heck, the author goes
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lengths to explain how to test in IE because it's the most used browser at the
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time!</p>
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<p>Honestly, stay away from this book. Get a book about JavaScript. Get a book
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about testing. Pick one of the JavaScript testing frameworks around (I know at
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least 5), read its documentation and you'll be in a better place than reading
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this.</p>
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