Testing jQuery plugins with Jasmine

Since I started working at Globo.com, I developed some jQuery plugins (for internal use) with my team, and we are starting to test these plugins using Jasmine, “a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code”. In this post, I will show how to develop a very simple jQuery plugin (based on an example that I learned with Ricard D. Worth): zebrafy. This plugin “zebrafies” a table, applying different classes to odd and even lines. Let’s start setting up a Jasmine environment...

Splinter: Python tool for acceptance tests on web applications

Capybara and Webrat are great Ruby tools for acceptance tests. A few months ago, we started a great tool for acceptance tests in Python web applications, called Splinter. There are many acceptance test tools on Python world: Selenium, Alfajor, Windmill, Mechanize, zope.testbrowser, etc. Splinter was not created to be another acceptance tool, but an abstract layer over other tools, its goal is provide a unique API that make acceptance testing easier and funnier.