Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)

Table of contents

1. Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)
   1. 1. Prerequisites
      2. Web Testing Challenges
      3. What's the Deal with Ajax?
      4. What's Test-First Programming?
      5. Why Test-First?
      6. Target Semantics, not Syntax
      7. Feedback
      8. A Wiki Test Runner
   2. Enough Planning! Now Rush to Coding...
      1. Authoring
      2. Sprouting a Class
      3. assert_select Divides and Conquers HTML
   3. YAML !omap
      1. assert_routing
   4. assert_xpath Queries XHTML Details
      1. Multi-level assert_xpath
   5. Why YPath?
   6. In-Place Editing (without Ajax.InPlaceEditor()!)
      1. Monkey Patching
   7. Lexing JavaScript with assert_js
      1. Super-Strict Lexing
      2. assert_argument
   8. Simulate Ajax Server Hits with xhr :get
   9. Simulate Ajax Posts with select_form
   10. Using an IFRAME to Test Web Sites
       1. link_to_remote
       2. Escaping Too Little or Too Much!
   11. assert_params
   12. Wiki Tests Wiki
       1. Drive our Test Page with JavaScript
       2. JavaScript Glue
       3. JavaScriptGenerator#click
   13. Red Bar
       1. The Web 2.0 Look (more or less!)
       2. The Error Transcript
   14. assert_ajax
       1. Ajax.Responders
       2. Closing the Loop
   15. Green Bar
       1. Usability
   16. Conclusion(s)
       1. Productization
       2. Code Review
       3. Acknowledgments
       4. Colophon
   17. About the Author