Re: [xwiki-devs] JavaScript unit tests

Hi Jerome, I feel sorry that you have not ask earlier. I have been involved with Javascript development for a while now, and since we have a large code base in JS, I have had to find a good development workflow, and I want it to be maven based. Hopelessly, I have not found what I really wanted and I had finally written my own based on existing pieces I have found. Javascript Maven Tools (http://mojo.codehaus.org/javascript-maven-tools/) was the best maven integration I found, but unfinished, with some issues and limitations, and using a junit like testing that is not really smart for javascript IMHO. So I have searched for better javascript testing frameworks and the RSpec-style JavaScript DSL used by screw-unit have catch me, but I have finally used its latest incarnation, which is called Jasmine ( http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/). In screw-unit, I really dislike the JQuery dependency (especially since I use a prototypejs based framework), and the storage of test results in DOM elements. This works great in a browser, but it completely disallow headless testing and could fails simply due to DOM issue unrelated with your own test. Jasmine was written by the same guys who have written screw-unit, with these issues in mind. Jasmine does not have any unnecessary dependency. If what you are testing is not DOM related, you do not need a DOM for your test. It also provide the best I have found to test asynchronous behaviors with simplicity. And for maven integration you have the Jasmine Maven Plugin (http://searls.github.com/jasmine-maven-plugin/). For a complete JS workflow, I have merged the javascript-maven-tool and the jasmine-maven-plugin (which has evolved afterward). What my implementation basically provide, is a really full JS dependency management using maven for both packaging and testing. The plugins use htmlunit to provided different kind of browser environment, allowing tests to be done in each of them. There are still some area to improve and documentation has to be written, but I use it already for several project that could be taken as example. You could find tools on github: https://github.com/softec/javascript-maven-toolsand some usages in our other repositories. I really do not like the idea of starting now something based on screw-unit, since Jasmine is the evolution of screw-unit, I see no reason to continue using screw-unit now, so I am currently -1 for it. At least, I would suggest to use Jasmine, and its maven plugin, you have my +1 for that. If you want more, I would be obviously pleased to help you using my own maven-javascript-tools. Denis On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 20:27, Roman Muntyanu <rmuntyan(a)softserveinc.com>wrote;wrote: -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO