pauldambra/server-team-meeting-24-04-2014

This repository is a small starter kit that was created for a team meeting about JavaScript testing. It contains empty project folders pre-configured for Jasmine, which is a popular tool for automatically testing JavaScript code to make sure it works correctly. The folders give meeting attendees a ready-to-go starting point so they can dive straight into learning without spending time on setup. At a basic level, the project provides two separate folders. One is set up for developers who use a text editor called Sublime Text, and the other is for those using Visual Studio. Because these editors handle files slightly differently, having a folder for each means everyone in the meeting can use the software environment they are most comfortable with. Once opened, the folders are essentially blank slates waiting for the team to write their first tests. The intended audience for this project was a specific group of server-side developers at a company called Apadmi. During their meeting, these developers needed a shared, frictionless way to practice writing tests. For example, if a developer wanted to check if a simple calculator function was adding numbers correctly, they could open one of these pre-configured folders, write a quick test in Jasmine, and see the results immediately. What is notable about this project is its extremely focused, single-purpose nature. It is not a software application or a tool that does things on its own. Instead, it is a practical piece of meeting infrastructure designed to remove the friction of environment setup. By packaging these empty folders together, the creator ensured that a group of people with different software preferences could start learning at the exact same time.