For this project we were provided with a web based application that reads RSS feeds. We then needed to implement testing of the app using the Jasmine testing framework. The original developer had set up their initial test suite and we needed to complete this task by completing the tests listed in overview below.

This is a project from Udacity's Frontend Nanodegree program.

Visit: feed reader

• Write a test that loops through each feed in the allFeeds object and ensures it has a URL defined and that the URL is not empty.
• Write a test that loops through each feed in the allFeeds object and ensures it has a name defined and that the name is not empty.
• Write a new test suite named "The menu".
• Write a test that ensures the menu element is hidden by default.
• Write a test that ensures the menu changes visibility when the menu icon is clicked. This test should have two expectations: does the menu display when clicked and does it hide when clicked again.
• Write a test suite named "Initial Entries".
• Write a test that ensures when the loadFeed function is called and completes its work, there is at least a single .entry element within the .feed container.
• Write a test suite named "New Feed Selection".
• Write a test that ensures when a new feed is loaded by the loadFeed function that the content actually changes.

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• Open index.html in the browser to view.
• The test suites and individual test results are listed at the bottom of page, or the failed tests are detailed.
• The actual tests are located in jasmine/spec/feedreader.js.

I've added tests for a feature that is not yet implemented in the application. This feature shows a 'tick' icon when the user selects a listed feed article. The ticks let them know which feed articles they have already viewed.

The icon could possibly be added to the page by appending a conditional <span class="icon icon-checkmark"></span> to the handlebars template on click.

• Test that the check-mark icon is not visible by default when the feed first loads.
• Test that when a feed article is selected the check-mark icon is visible.

    describe('Visited Icon', function() {

        beforeEach(function(done) { // pass done to the callback

            loadFeed(1, done); // call loadFeed function - load a different feed
        });

        /* Test to check there is no visited icon (check-mark tick) visible by default when the feed first loads*/
        xit('does not show by default', function() { // marked 'xit' as a pending test

            var checkIcon = $('article').hasClass('icon-checkmark'); // try to find a .icon-checkmark, which is a tick
            expect(checkIcon).not.toEqual(true); // expect on first loading a feed not to find it
        });

        /* Test to check visited icon shows when feed article is clicked and visited*/
        xit('shows after feed article has been visited', function() { // marked 'xit' as a pending test

            var selected = $('.entry-link').first(); // the first list item from the feed-list
            selected.click(); // select - 'click' the first item. This should show the check icon
            var showCheckIcon = $('article').hasClass('icon-checkmark'); // try to find a .icon-checkmark
            expect(showCheckIcon).toEqual(true); // expect this to be true - the check icon is visible showing the feed article has been visited by the user.
        });
    });

• Both tests are marked as pending with 'xit'.
• If run, the first test will currently pass because the checkmark icon is already not defined.
• If run, the last test will fail because the feature is not yet implemented.