Programming with JavaScript: Algorithms and Applications for Desktop and Mobile Browsers

CHAPTER 7

Software Construction

CHAPTER CONTENTS

7.1 Software Engineering Activities

7.2 Object-Oriented Design and Programming

7.2.1 Families of Objects

7.2.2 Inheritance

7.2.3 Information Hiding

7.2.4 Property Descriptors*

7.3 JavaScript Standard Objects

7.3.1 Built-in Objects

7.3.2 Web Browser Host Objects

7.4 Modules

7.4.1 Simple Modules

7.4.2 The Tic-Tac-Toe Game as a Module

7.5 The jQuery JavaScript Library

7.6 Performance

7.6.1 Run-Time Efficiency

7.6.2 Space Efficiency

7.6.3 Load-Time Efficiency

7.6.4 User Interface Efficiency

7.7 Unit Testing

7.7.1 An Introductory Example

7.7.2 The QUnit Testing Framework

7.7.3 Testing in the Software Development Process

Chapter Summary

Exercises

Introduction

The preceding five chapters have covered ...