[Cosmo-dev] [Proposal] Use Windmill for JS Unit testing

[Adam Christian]

Mikeal and I have a plan to make this kind of testing a lot more  
elegant, but it would be really helpful to get peoples requirements  
as to how this would be maximally useful. Currently the tests rely  
heavily on accessing pieces of the UI to validate that things are  
doing what they are supposed to, but it would be very simple to add  
some functionality to run js unit tests and output those results to  
the windmill ui.

Adam

On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> So for Cosmo 0.7, we have a bug <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/ 
> show_bug.cgi?id=5689> for Javascript Unit testing.   I did little  
> bit of work on the browser based Javascript test runner from  
> JSUnit, and I was intending to work on a command-line/maven based  
> build next.   The problem with a command line / Maven solution is  
> that the only way to run Javascript in those situations is to use  
> something like Rhino, which is not the environment where we run our  
> Javascript code.    In the past we've had Javascript bugs like the  
> Safari date problem, which were browser specific, but not related  
> to the DOM or other parts of the browser UI.    Now that we have  
> Windmill, my current thinking is that we could use Windmill to kick  
> off Javascript unit tests that would run in the browser and which  
> would use the browser based Javascript runner.
>
> I'd like to hear people's opinions on whether this is a good idea  
> or not.
>
> Ted
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