Mental Pandiculation » unit testing http://mentalpandiculation.com One Man's Attempt To Find Elegant Code Through Big Words Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:31:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 JsTestDriver First Impressions http://mentalpandiculation.com/2010/01/jstestdriver-first-impressions/ http://mentalpandiculation.com/2010/01/jstestdriver-first-impressions/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:22:11 +0000 Niklaus Wirth's Ghost http://mentalpandiculation.com/?p=235 I’m currently trying to get some unit tests written around a bunch of JavaScript code and I’m using JsTestDriver to do it. So far, I’m pretty impressed though there are some little gotchas here and there. It’s been a really good framework for basic testing assuming you aren’t doing a ton of work with other libraries like Prototype.js and script.aculo.us which of course I am. I’m sure there are ways around it but it’s going to take some digging to figure out what they are.

One minor thing that has been different for me from the documentation is that when I try to run tests, I need to specify the server explicitly on the command line even though I have a server running and a browser captured. The documentation says you can do this:

java -jar JsTestDriver.jar --tests all

.

However, I’ve found that I need to do:

java -jar JsTestDriver.jar --tests all --server http://localhost:9876

Where the server value may be different according to what server you started up.

Now I’m off to figure out how I can mock some of the Prototype.js dependencies.

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