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A new book has been released that will teach readers to use different techniques to test JavaScript, and to discover the most important tools to make their debugging task less painful.

Written by Liang Yuxian Eugene, JavaScript Testing Beginner’s Guide, will also assist readers to automate their testing process by using external testing tools.

JavaScript is an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It can be characterized as a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions.

JavaScript Testing Beginner’s Guide teaches users the most basic functions of JavaScript to perform ad hoc testing quickly and efficiently.  In addition to this, users will learn different types of errors encountered in JavaScript along with the most essential features, the implementation of a test plan for their code and better ways of testing it, and to write better and faster JavaScript code.

Using this book, developers will learn the relationship between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, how to validate their JavaScript code, different testing concepts including testing the user interface controlled by JavaScript, how to debug their code using various tools such as Google Chrome and Firefox’s Venkman Extension, and testing more complex code by using JavaScript’s exception handling.

Organized in an easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial style to maximize learning,this example-driven guide is ideal for beginner JavaScript developers, who are looking for essential ways to write, test, and debug JavaScript for different purposes and situations. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/javascript-testing-beginner’s- …

280 North a  company that first started up as a tiny three – man outfit, funded with Y-Combinator startup, in silcon valley at the beginning of 2010,has ended up as part of mortorola US  what a success  stories in such a short space of time.

The company which is best known for the development of Objective-J a clever object –oriented version of javascript, which inspiration stems from the objective C program Atlas browser-based IDE, as well as the Cappuccino Web application framework, had been purchased at the start of the summer for a very impressive US$20 million dollars. But the company kept things quite till this week hence why where mentioning it today.

The 280 North team began its work on Objective-J when the founders decided they wanted to recreate Objective-C for the Web. The result was the open-source Cappuccino Web development framework, which enables desktop-like behaviour in the browser.

To check out there site click on the link http://280north.com/

Heres a link to there  groundbreaking product that impressed  Motorola.

http://280slides.com/

Lightweight Test Automation Framework is an integration testing tool, which works by scripting the web browser to perform a sequence of actions against your application’s UI – entering text and clicking links and buttons exactly as a real user would – and then checking that the expected results can be seen in the browser window.

Just in case you don’t know the difference between unit testing and integration testing:

Unit tests work against the API of a particular component in your code.  Ideally, they test only that single isolated unit (hence the name), which allows them to pinpoint any problems exactly where they occur.  Unit testing tools for .NET include NUnit, mbUnit, and xUnit.

Integrations tests combine multiple components.  Typically, they work at the UI level to test that your JavaScript, your HTML, your controller code, your model code, and your database all work together.  Integration testing tools for .NET include Selenium, Watin, and Lightweight Test Automation Framework.

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Size is one of the most important attributes of a software product. It is not only the key indicator of software cost and time but also a base unit to derive other metrics for project status and software quality measurement. Size metric is used as an essential input for most of cost estimation models such as COCOMO, SLIM, SEER-SEM and Price-S.

Although source lines of code or SLOC is a widely accepted sizing metric, there is a lack of standard that enforces a consistency of what and how to count SLOC. Ensuring consistency across independent organizations in the rules used to count software cost code is often difficult to achieve. To that end, the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has developed and released a code counting toolset called CodeCount to support sizing software code for historical data collection and reporting purposes. This toolset is a collection of tools designed to automate the collection of source code sizing information. It implements the popular code counting standards published by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and adapted by COCOMO. Logical and physical SLOC are among the metrics generated by the toolset.

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Greasemonkey is an excellent extension for Firefox, which allows simple javascripts to be used on pages to alter the content.

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FriendlyGhost is an advanced debugging tool for Macromedia Flash Platform and AJAX Innovations which enables developers to debug ActionScript and JavaScript applications more effectively.

With its highly integrated, component based client server application model and intuitive user interface, FriendlyGhost lets you visually debug your Flash and AJAX applications in real-time.  Its Multi-tab environment and multi-level trace filtering with color coded debug messages provide you with total control on every aspect of debugging and testing of your applications.

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