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Node.js 8 the Right Way
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Node.js 8 the Right Way

by Jim Wilson
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 22m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Behavior-Driven Development with Mocha and Chai

It’s a maxim of programming that testing is good for code health. One strategy for approaching testing is BDD, which advocates articulating your expected behaviors in tests even before you start writing the implementation.

Not all programming problems are equally well suited to the BDD approach, but data processing is one area where it makes a lot of sense. Since the inputs and outputs of the program are quite well defined, you can specify the desired behavior to a high degree even before implementing the functionality.

So in this chapter, let’s take the opportunity to use BDD while parsing the RDF content. Along with Mocha, last seen back in Developing Unit Tests with Mocha, we’ll use Chai, ...

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