Setting up JavaScript unit tests for a Cobalt product

Ryan Morlok

I'm working on setting up JavaScript unit tests for Advisor (GTLRMaxwell) website. What do I need to do make the test consistent with the rest of Cobalt? How do I run Cobalt's existing tests? Is there some documentation for this?

James Greene

For any new verticals and products, we are recommending that JavaScript unit tests are written using the [QUnit testing framework][1] from jQuery.

The Search and Alerts verticals are already using QUnit, and there are plans to migrate the other verticals over to QUnit in upcoming iterations. We have build integration working for the WLNStaticContent and SharedStaticContent builds using [PhantomJS][2] (essentially a headless WebKit browser). We can add this functionality other builds fairly easily as well on request by following [the process I've outlined on the NSAWiki][3].

Relevant research/analysis that we conducted in making the decision to standardize on QUnit can be found on the related [NSAWiki page][4].


[1]: http://docs.jquery.com/QUnit
[2]: http://www.phantomjs.org/
[3]: http://nsawiki.int.westgroup.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_hook_QUnit_into_the_Cobalt_Build_Process
[4]: http://nsawiki.int.westgroup.com/wiki/index.php/JavaScript_Testing_Framework_Analysis