Getting the test libraries
The ecosystem of frontend JavaScript test frameworks is quite rich, with libraries supporting different paradigms, features, and functionality. Choosing tools from this collection is a difficult task, without clear correct answers. In this book, we have settled on three complementary libraries, Mocha, Chai, and Sinon.JS, that provide an aggregate set of features particularly well suited for testing Backbone.js applications. In addition to these libraries, we will use the PhantomJS headless web browser to automate our test infrastructure and run tests from the command line.
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