Basics-04

This is an example of TDD or Test Driven Development.

Test Driven Development aims to write a specification in the form of tests, before writing any code. Once the tests are written, the code is produced in such a way that they conform to the spec.

You will find a series of test which, originally, do not work. The tests are checking functions that are entirely empty, so naturally, the tests fail. Your job is to make each function pass its test, until there are no failures anymore.

3 files are of importance to you:

• ./questions.js: this is the file containing the functions. You will be working in this file, and this file only

• ./questions.spec.js: this is the testing file. You may open it to read how the tests are written, but do not change it

• ./SpecRunner.html: this runs the tests in te browser. Open it in Chromium/Firefox to see the tests results.

Goals:

• Practice a bit of mock-up TDD

• Practice Javascript basics

• Competencies:

  • TDD experience

  • strings manipulation

  • numbers manipulation

  • arrays manipulation

Instructions

• Get to your submission folder under the folder exercises/javascript-basics-04

• Run SpecRunner.html in your browser

• Open questions.spec.js in your editor

• Look at the first test in questions.spec.js, which begins with describe('stringSize', () => { .... Try to understand what it does

• Open questions.js, and look at the first function, const stringSize = (text) => {.... Fill the function such as the test passes

• Refresh specRunner.html in your browser (f5 or ctrl+r)

• You should see the first red mark become a green mark, which means the first test is passing. If it does, congrats! Go to the next test. If it doesn't, keep trying

• Once you get to the createLanguagesArray function, commit

• When you're done, submit a pull request