SUMMARY

You’ve now been introduced to the fundamental concepts of unit testing. You’ve also been introduced to everything you need to write your own unit tests with QUnit. From the assertions you’ll use to the methods you’ll use to test DOM manipulations and Ajax interactions, you have a full toolset at your disposal to start testing your own applications.

This chapter also marks the end of the book. At this point, you’ve gone in-depth through much of what jQuery has to offer. From the core concepts covered in the first half of the book to the more advanced topics covered in the later chapters, you should be a confident, capable jQuery programmer. Moving beyond simple DOM manipulations, canned animations, and implementing plugins, you should be ready to go toe to toe with the ninjas and pirates of the JavaScript world. Maybe you’re going to dive in and do some plugin development of your own, enhancing and extending core jQuery functionality into new and useful areas, or maybe you’re going to dive in and add some rigor to your JavaScript practice with a formal testing framework using QUnit. W....