What is Jasmine Framework?

Question

What is Jasmine?

Jasmine is an open source testing framework for JavaScript. It aims to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform, to not intrude on the application nor the IDE, and to have easy-to-read syntax. It is heavily influenced by other unit testing frameworks, such as ScrewUnit, JSSpec, JSpec, and RSpec.

Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code. It does not depend on any other JavaScript frameworks. It does not require a DOM. And it has a clean, obvious syntax so that you can easily write tests.

• Jasmine does not depend on any other JavaScript framework.
• Jasmine does not require any DOM.
• All the syntax used in Jasmine framework is clean and obvious.
• Jasmine is heavily influenced by Rspec, JS Spec, and Jspec.
• Jasmine is an open-source framework and easily available in different versions like stand-alone, ruby gem, Node.js, etc.​

Sample Code

describe("A suite is just a function", function() {
  var a;

  it("and so is a spec", function() {
    a = true;

    expect(a).toBe(true);
  });
});
 

Video for Jasmine Framework