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Illustration by Sue Lockwood TC-39, the standards body that defines JavaScript, maintains a gigantic suite of tests for the language. The name of that test suite is Test262. When we started extending Test262 to cover brand new language features, we knew we were in for some surprises. Even so, we never could have anticipated the […]

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Test262 is a JavaScript Sideshow

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• testing

In the beginning of 2015, we started another important project for the open web. Of course you haven’t forgotten, but for all the folks just joining us: Google and Bocoup teamed up to improve Test262, the official test suite for the JavaScript language. Our goal was to improve the dependability of the web platform (not […]

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Advancing the Open Web through Test262

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• testing

August 14, 2015. Mark your calendars. That’s my next birthday. Another important date is June 18, 2015–it’s when the ECMA General Assembly will vote on and approve the 6th edition of Ecma-262 and usher in the next era of JavaScript. On that day, all those new language features we’ve been coveting/dreading will officially enter our […]

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Stabilizing ECMAScript 2015 (ES6): Teaming up with TC39 and Google on Test262

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• performance,
• testing,
• web standards

Every time I contribute to JSHint, I learn a little more about JavaScript. My most recent fantastical knowledge adventure led me to the behavior of the name attribute of function objects. JSHint has an interesting but lesser-known feature: code analysis reports. When used programatically, JSHint will return an object with some data about the code […]

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What’s in a Function Name?

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• web standards