Jasmine Maven Plugin

As one might intuit, the jasmine-maven-plugin is a Maven plugin for the JavaScript testing framework, Jasmine.

If you’re using Maven, you’re probably writing Java (but, hey, you could be using it for any JVM-language). And if you’re anything like me, you’re here to figure out how to treat your client-side code with the same degree of professionalism that you already show server-side code. Maybe that means you want a painless way to test-drive your JavaScript. Maybe you’re trying to figure out how to incorporate JavaScript tests on your continuous integration server without requiring any browser shenanigans.

The good news

it helps you practice TDD/BDD as you write JavaScript
it can run as part of your build using PhantomJS with no added configuration on your part
it has full-on support for the burgeoning CoffeeScript language! Any files with a “.coffee” extension will be compiled just in time for your specs to run
it is extremely customizable

Usage

Below is a simple configuration using all the default options. You can find full usage information here.

  <plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.searls</groupId>
    <artifactId>jasmine-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <goals>
          <goal>test</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>