Java Script

JavaScript Testing
Beginner's Guide

Test and debug JavaScript the easy way

Liang Yuxian Eugene

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

JavaScript Testing
Beginner's Guide

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Credits
Author
Liang Yuxian Eugene
Reviewers
Chetan Akarte

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Project Team Leader
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About the Author
Liang Yuxian Eugene enjoys solving difficult problemscreatively in the form of building
web applications by using Python/Django and JavaScript/JQuery. He also enjoys doing
research related to the areas of recommendation algorithms, link analysis, data visualization,
data mining, information retrieval, business intelligence, and intelligent user interfaces. He is
currently pursuing two degrees, Business Administration and Computer Science at NationalCheng Chi University (NCCU) at Taipei, Taiwan. Eugene has recently started a personal blog at
http://www.liangeugene.com.
I want to thank all of the great folks at Packt Publishing for giving me the
opportunity to write this book. This book would not be possible without
the help, advice and timely correspondence of Steven Wilding, Tarun Singh,
Vincila Colaco and Priya Mukherji of PacktPublishing.
I want to thank Professor Johannes K. Chiang (Department of Management
of Information Systems, NCCU) and Professor Li Tsai Yen (Department of
Computer Science, NCCU) for their unwavering generosity in providing
both personal and professional advice to me whenever I needed it.
I want to thank my family and friends for their continued support.
Last but not the least, I want to thankCharlene Hsiao for her kind
understanding and tireless support for me.

About the Reviewers
Chetankumar D. Akarte has been working in PHP, JavaScript and .Net for the last
five years. He has worked extensively on both small scale and large scale PHP and .Net
ecommerce, social networking, Wordpress and Joomla based web projects. Over the years,
Chetan has been actively involved in the "XfundaDevelopers Community". He has regularly
blogged on Microsoft .NET technology at http://www.tipsntracks.com.
Chetan completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from the Nagpur University,
India in 2006. He likes contributing to newsgroups, and forums. He has also written some
articles for Electronics For You, DeveloperIQ, and Flash & Flex Developer's magazines.
Chetan lives in Navi...