From simple test runners to complete testing frameworks, look to these proven tools to keep your JavaScript free of bugs The need to test JavaScript code is straightforward. How else to keep out the ...

The new benchmark is designed to catch a new class of browser performance problems -- and perhaps to curry favor with rival browser makers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Meta is transferring its popular open-source JavaScript testing framework, Jest, to the OpenJS Foundation. Jest is one of Meta's top open-source projects and has proven a popular tool for testing ...

Trying to improve more than just a browser's JavaScript program speed, Google lets fly with a new browser benchmark. It wants others to help improve the test, but Microsoft's IE team derides it.

Google has updated the mobile-friendly test and the rich results test tools to support JavaScript sites better. Google posted on Twitter that you now will see rendered HTML, console log, exceptions ...

Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google's V8 and the WebKit project's SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

Google’s mobile-friendly and rich results testing tools have been updated with features designed for developers of JavaScript sites. Among these features is the ability to show rendered HTML, which ...

Peter looks at Knockout, one of the MVC environments for writing client-side JavaScript, and wonders if we're on the wrong path. The typical interweaving of code and presentation logic in JavaScript ...

The open source JavaScript runtime Node.js has reached version 23. The most important new features include the standard activation of require(esm) for Node.js applications, remote support for 32-bit ...

WebStorm, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Code, NetBeans, Komodo, and Eclipse pull out the stops for JavaScript, Node.js, and friends. JavaScript is used for many different kinds of applications ...