Simple Unit Testing in Appcelerator Titanium Alloy using behave.js and the new titanium CLI for running the scripts

1. Simple Unit Testing in
Titanium Alloy
Aaron K. Saunders
CEO Clearly Innovative Inc
@aaronksaunders

2. First Thing… "
• Why Does Testing Even Matter?
• Find the bugs earlier and more often
• The automation of running the scripts
help to ensure code changes don’t
break things.
• Easier way of testing functionality

3. Setup behave.js
" Create new “lib” folder in project if it does
not exists
" Create a new file in that folder called
“behave.js”
" Add the contents of this URL to the new file
" http://bit.ly/11IAjXB

4. Setup Your Test Spec
" Create a new folder in assests called “specs”
" Create a new file called “test-spec-1.js”
" Add this to the file

5. Setup Your index.js
" Add this code to index.js to run the test
based on the deploy-type property

6. Run the Titanium CLI
titanium build --platform ios --deploy-type test
See Appcelerator documentation for more
"
information
" http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/3.0/#!/
guide/Titanium_Command-
Line_Interface_Reference

7. References
" CODESTRONG REPO
" https://github.com/appcelerator/
Codestrong/tree/master/app/assets/spec
" https://github.com/appcelerator/
Codestrong/blob/master/app/lib/behave.js
" This posting explained a more complex
approach IMHO
" https://github.com/denvers/unit-test-
titanium-alloy-project

8. More Information
Aaron K. Saunders
Clearly Innovative Inc
aaron@clearlyinnovative.com
@aaronksaunders
http://blog.clearlyinnovative.com