Date: 8 Jan 2010 Comments: 0

Here’s a list of tools that can be used to test or validate your javascript code.

1. J3Unit – an object-oriented unit testing framework for JavaScript. It runs javascript tests in the web browser.

URL: http://j3unit.sourceforge.net/

2. JsUnit – another javascript unit testing framework in the browser. It includes a platform for automating execution of tests on multiple browsers.

URL: http://www.jsunit.net/

3. YUI 2 – a testing framework for browser-based JavaScript solutions.

Features:

• DOM Event simulation in all A-grade browsers.
• Grouping of related test cases using test suites.
• Rapid creation of test cases through simple syntax.
• Advanced failure detection for methods that throw errors.
• Asynchronous tests for testing events and Ajax communication.

URL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/yuitest/

4. Crosscheck – an open source testing framework for verifying javascript in your browser. It helps you ensure that your js code will work fine under multiple browsers.

URL: http://thefrontside.net/crosscheck

5. JSLitmus – a lightweight tool for creating JavaScript benchmark tests. Features:

• one file for installation (JSLitmus.js)
• works on different browsers – Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE, Google Chrome, and iPhone browsers
• Google Chart + TinyUrl integration
• adaptive test cycles – tests take ~1-2 seconds, regardless of the operation
• Open Source

URL: http://broofa.com/Tools/JSLitmus/

6. Regular Expression Tool – easy to use online to that helps you to search for your regular expression matches in your text.

URL: http://erik.eae.net/playground/regexp/regexp.html

If you know another tools for testing and validating javascript code, I’ll be very thankful to post a link to it as a comment to include its info in the post :)

Do you use any tool to test or validate your javascript code?

Yes, I always test or validate my java script code

Yes, but rarely

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