Practical Test Automation: Learn to Use Jasmine, RSpec, and Cucumber Effectively for Your TDD and BDD

© Panos Matsinopoulos 2020

P. MatsinopoulosPractical Test Automationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6141-5_2

2. Advanced Jasmine

Panos Matsinopoulos¹ 

(1)

KERATEA, Greece

 

This chapter introduces you to two very widely used areas of testing:

1. 1.

   Stubbing

    
2. 2.

   Mocking

    

You are going to learn these techniques using Jasmine (although you will come back when you will be doing tests using Ruby).

With stubbing, you are going to specify how a method should behave when another method returns specific values (Figure 2-1).

Figure 2-1

Stubbing Example

With mocking, you are going to specify which methods are expected to be called (Figure 2-2).

Figure 2-2

Specifying Which ...