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

[Ted Leung]

Hi Adam,

The goal here is to have javascript tests for stuff like the backend  
dashboard plumbing, which don't talk to the UI at all.  Real unit  
tests, in otherwords.  JSUnit gives a JUnit like framework for doing  
that, but it has to be run manually in a browser, which is annoying  
for developers who are running everything from a command line or via  
Maven.  So a solution that makes it possible to run unit tests from  
the command line and Maven, while using the Javascript engine of one  
(or all) of our supported browsers would be the goal.

Ted

On Mar 28, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Adam Christian wrote:

> 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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