Jasmine Cookbook

Chapter 3. Customizing Matchers and Jasmine Functions

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Writing a Jasmine test using a custom equality tester function
• Writing Jasmine tests with Custom Matchers
• Writing Jasmine tests for exceptions
• Declaring Pending specs with Jasmine tests

Introduction

A matcher is used to evaluate an assertion of an object. If the expected and actual values match, the assertion passes, or else, the assertion fails. Jasmine provides a rich set of built-in matchers to test JavaScript applications. To know more about Jasmine's built-in matchers, refer to the Applying different matchers to the Jasmine test recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Jasmine Framework. In addition to the built-in matchers, Jasmine also provides various functions ...