Jasmine
Jasmine is an open-source behavior-driven development (BDD) testing framework for JavaScript, designed to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform. It provides a clean, expressive syntax for writing unit and integration tests, making them highly readable and maintainable.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2010
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Jasmine was created to address the growing need for a robust, readable, and framework-agnostic testing solution for client-side and server-side JavaScript. It aimed to provide a BDD-style syntax that made tests self-documenting, easier to understand for non-developers, and simpler to maintain than existing, often more verbose, assertion-based frameworks. It offered a complete testing solution without external dependencies like a DOM or specific assertion libraries, streamlining the setup process.
- Platforms
- Node.js, Web Browsers
Related technologies
Notable users
- Pivotal Labs (original developer)
- Many large enterprises utilizing Angular
- Google (especially within Angular's ecosystem)