Acknowledgments

The advantage of working for a company like ThoughtWorks is that a lot of people I know have written technical books. The disadvantage is that every single one of them told me that writing a book is, like, really hard. (Thanks Martin Fowler, Neal Ford, and Mike Mason.)

Fortunately, Pete Hodgson wasn’t one of them. He has, however, written several articles, including one on testing JavaScript on Martin Fowler’s bliki. I didn’t really understand it the first 10 times I read it, and, not being a JavaScript developer myself, tried to implement a synchronous promise library based on a naive interpretation of promises. A few weeks later, when I untangled my frontal cortex from my corpus callosum before realizing what a Bad Idea trying to write my own promise library was, I asked Pete for help. He provided the first contribution to mountebank, showing me how to actually test JavaScript. I felt that was a good thing to know because I was writing a testing tool. Thanks, Pete.