Question

So I’m building an angular project… And I have a class called “entries” with child classes like “twitter entries”, “Facebook entries”, etc.

Ideally I’d like to write one spec, and run all of the children classes through the specs. I haven’t figured out how to do that.

Any suggestions on how to function-ize a jasmine spec?

Answer 1

I’d write a standard JS function that runs the Jasmine expectations, and pass each child class in via a separate spec. Something like:

describe("my multi-class spec suite", function(){
    //common specs for each child class
    var myExpectations = function(childClass) {
        expect(childClass).toBeDefined();
        expect(childClass.inheritedMethod()).toEqual("some common value");
        ...
    };

    //pass in your children classes
    it('should have twitter entries that behave', function(){
        myExpectations(new TwitterEntry());
    });

    it('should have facebook entries that behave', function(){
        myExpectations(new FacebookEntry());
    });
});