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(Testing) Know How

Integrated Tests Are A Scam – J. B. Rainsberger
Integrated tests probably do you more harm than good. Learn the two-pronged attack that solves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests.
Testing Async JavaScript
Podcast panel with Pete Hodgson.
Maintainable JavaScript
Podcast panel with Nicholas C. Zakas and Joe Eames.
Hexagonal Architecture – Alistair Cockburn
Allow an application to equally be driven by users, programs, automated test or batch scripts, and to be developed and tested in isolation from its eventual run-time devices and databases.
How to use Google Spreadsheets for TDD – Wolfram Kriesing, uxebu
Inspired by "TDD for managers" see how to do TDD with Google Spreadsheet and JavaScript, no setup, just red+green.

What is Clean Code? – Uncle Bob
First, you are a programmer. Second, you want to be a better programmer. Good. We need better programmers.
Object Calisthenics – William Durand
Object Calisthenics are programming exercises, formalized as a set of 9 rules invented by Jeff Bay in his book The ThoughtWorks Anthology.
Five steps to a meaningful function name – Wolfram Kriesing, uxebu
Read on how to find good function names even when it is hard to do so.
Setters Destroy Objects – Nicole Rauch
A “classical” setter, i.e. a public method that directly sets an object’s field to a value passed in from the outside, undermines an object’s integrity.
Refactoring – Martin Fowler
This online catalog of refactorings includes the refactorings described in the base Refactoring book and its Ruby edition.
Defactoring – Reginald Braithwaite
Defactoring is the process of removing factoring from code.

Unit test tools on stackoverflow
An overview of various testing libraries and tools.
TDDbin – uxebu
A no-setup jasmine test envirnonment, write a test run it and see it pass/fail instantly. A good way of practicing test writing and a helpful tool for coding dojos and/or code retreats.
Sinon.JS
Podcast panel with Christian Johansen author of Sinon.JS.
Make tests read like a book – Wolfram Kriesing, uxebu
Why to use custom matchers and how to build and use them.
Intern – SitePen
Intern is a complete test stack for JavaScript designed to help you write and run consistent, high-quality test cases for your JavaScript libraries and applications.
VMs of IE – Microsoft
Test versions of IE using Virtual Machines that you download and manage in your own development environment.

JSConf
Conferences for the JavaScript community.
DotJS
The largest JavaScript conference in Europe.
Socrates UK
Software Craftsmanship Conference
Socrates DE
Software Craftsmanship Conference
JS CodeRetreat – uxebu
Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.

Reactjs – facebook
A Javascript Library for Building User Interfaces
AngularJS – Google
AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application.
Polymer – Google
Polymer is a new library built on top of Web Components, designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers
MontageJS – Montage Studio
MontageJS HTML5 is a framework to change the way developers and designers build software together.

Reactjs – facebook
A Javascript Library for Building User Interfaces
Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome – James Long
"We're going to build our own library from scratch that is highly inspired by React."
Cortex, a javascript library for centrally managing data with React
Cortex is a Javascript library for centrally managing data with React.

EventSourcing – Martin Fowler
Event Sourcing ensures that all changes to application state are stored as a sequence of events.
eventrics.js – Johannes Becker
Build JavaScript applications based on DDD, CQRS and EventSourcing
CQRS and Event Sourcing – the Business Perspective – Greg Young
Watch this SkillsCast recording of a talk by Greg Young, where he introduces the concepts of CQRS and Event Sourcing and looks at all of the non-technical reasons for looking at these patterns.
CQRS Journey – Microsoft Corporation
focused on building highly scalable, highly available and maintainable applications with the Command & Query Responsibility Segregation and the Event Sourcing patterns

Webstorm – JetBrains
Advanced JavaScript editor, including features such as refactoring and tools integration.
Sublime – Sublime HQ
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
vim (vimawesome.com)
A very powerful complex editor, with lot's of extension possibilities.

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – Addy Osmani
Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design.
The Coding Dojo Handbook – Emily Bache
This handbook is a collection of concrete ideas for how you can get started with a Coding Dojo, where you and your team can focus on improving practical coding skills.
Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design – Corey Haines
The only thing we truly know about software development is that we can expect changes to our system.
Test-Driven JavaScript Development – Christian Johansen
Test-Driven JavaScript Development teaches you how to solve those issues and more using unit tests and TDD.
JavaScript Testing Recipes – James Coglan
JavaScript Testing Recipes is for anyone looking to improve the quality of the JavaScript they write.

Cleveland Code Retreat Introduction – Corey Haines
Corey gives an introduction to the purpose of Code Retreat and an introduction to Conway's Game Of Life.
Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript – James Shore
James Shore presents a fascinating, in-depth screencast
How to adopt TDD safely? – J. B. Rainsberger
Changing how we work always creates uncertainty and adds risk, so how do we do TDD without jeopardising the project?

EcmaScript5 Shim – Kristopher Michael Kowal
ECMAScript 5 compatibility shims for legacy JavaScript engines
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks – William F. Opdyke
The first mention of refactoring? A PhD thesis from 1992.
Test smells – Gerard Meszaros
Old but still relevant list of smells in tests, from the xUnit Patterns book.
Subjective evaluation of software evolvability using code smells: An empirical study – Mika V. Mantyla & Casper Lassenius
A more sientific approach to define code smells.
Refactorings Catalog – Martin Fowler