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    Sinon.JS
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    Standalone and test framework agnostic JavaScript test spies, stubs and mocks (pronounced "sigh-non", named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinon">Sinon, the warrior</a>).
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## Installation

via [npm](https://github.com/npm/npm)

    $ npm install sinon

or via sinon's browser builds available for download on the [homepage](http://sinonjs.org/releases/). There are also [npm based CDNs](http://sinonjs.org/releases#npm-cdns) one can use.

## Usage

See the [sinon project homepage](http://sinonjs.org/) 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](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sinon) or drop by <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/sinon.js">#sinon.js on irc.freenode.net:6667</a>.

You can also search through the [Sinon.JS mailing list archives](http://groups.google.com/group/sinonjs).

## 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](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on how you can contribute to Sinon.JS

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## Licence

Sinon.js was released under [BSD-3](LICENSE)
