Jasmine.Async

Make Jasmine's asynchronous testing suck less.

About Jasmine.Async

I love Jasmine. It's a great BDD-style testing framework for browser based JavaScript, and my preferred tool for doing that kind of work. But the asynchronous testing story in Jasmine is painful at best.

Thus, Jasmine.Async was born out of frustration and little bit of jealousy in how easy it is to do async tests with Mocha.

Source Code And Downloads

You can download the raw source code from the "src" folder above, or grab one of the many builds from the "lib" folder.

To get the latest stable release, use these links which point to the 'master' branch's builds:

Standard Builds

• Development: jasmine.async.js

• Production: jasmine.async.min.js

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Basic Usage

describe("an async spec", function(){

  // set up the async spec
  var async = new AsyncSpec(this);

  // run an async setup
  async.beforeEach(function(done){
    doSomething();

    // simulate async stuff and wait 10ms
    setTimeout(function(){

      // more code here
      doMoreStuff();
 
      // when the async stuff is done, call `done()`
      done();

    }, 10); 
  });

  // run an async cleanup
  async.afterEach(function(done){
    // simulate async cleanup
    setTimeout(function(){

      done(); // done with the async stuff

    }, 10);
  });

  // run an async expectation
  async.it("did stuff", function(done){

    // simulate async code again
    setTimeout(function(){

      expect(1).toBe(1);
      
      // all async stuff done, and spec asserted
      done();

    });    

  });

});

Release Notes

For change logs and release notes, see the changelog file.

Legal Mumbo-Jumbo (MIT License)

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