JavaScript test spies, stubs and mocks.


Keywords
sinon, test, testing, unit, stub, spy, fake, time, clock, mock, xhr, assert, javascript, stubs, tdd, test-driven-development, test-spies, unit-testing
License
BSD-3-Clause
Install
npm install sinon@19.0.2

Documentation

Sinon.JS
Sinon.JS

Standalone and test framework agnostic JavaScript test spies, stubs and mocks (pronounced "sigh-non", named after Sinon, the warrior).

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Compatibility

For details on compatibility and browser support, please see COMPATIBILITY.md

Installation

via npm

$ npm install sinon

or via Sinon's browser builds available for download on the homepage. There are also npm based CDNs one can use.

Usage

See the sinon project homepage for documentation on usage.

If you have questions that are not covered by the documentation, you can check out the sinon tag on Stack Overflow.

Goals

  • No global pollution
  • Easy to use
  • Require minimal “integration”
  • Easy to embed seamlessly with any testing framework
  • Easily fake any interface
  • Ship with ready-to-use fakes for XMLHttpRequest, timers and more

Contribute?

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how you can contribute to Sinon.JS

Backers

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Sponsors

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Licence

Sinon.js was released under BSD-3