Comments on: Yet Another Day of Test Driven Javascript: Screw.Unit http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/06/12/yet-another-day-of-test-driven-javascript-screwunit/ Rants and Musings of an Agile Developer Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: TJ Holowaychuk http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/06/12/yet-another-day-of-test-driven-javascript-screwunit/#comment-112109 TJ Holowaychuk Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:05:42 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=385#comment-112109 JSpec has way more features :D and absolutely no dependencies which I think is a huge bonus. Screw.Unit's matchers are really verbose too I found. I support a few variants in JSpec since its usually unnecessary to define every portion of a matcher, including the description etc. Including an example matcher might be a good idea though JSpec has way more features :D and absolutely no dependencies which I think is a huge bonus. Screw.Unit’s matchers are really verbose too I found. I support a few variants in JSpec since its usually unnecessary to define every portion of a matcher, including the description etc. Including an example matcher might be a good idea though

]]> By: Steven Parkes http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/06/12/yet-another-day-of-test-driven-javascript-screwunit/#comment-108172 Steven Parkes Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:45:22 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=385#comment-108172 I've been looking for JS testing tools and following your blog entries. One that I came across but haven't seen you mention was Blue-Ridge (http://github.com/relevance/blue-ridge/tree/master). It's not so much a testing framework as a meta-testing framework. That is, it integrates screw.unit with env.js and smoke. env.js provides command line support for screw.unit. as you noted isn't in integrated into screw.unit. I like the concept of Blue-Ridge, but there are few things about it I'm less thrilled about. For one, it's focused on Rails and brings a lot of Rails stuff in that I don't need (I use Rails, but not for this part of this project). The bigger issue is that it's tricky to get all the different components coherently integrated and capable of tracking them as they evolve. So I ended up creating my own integration package called Stage at http://github.com/smparkes/stage/tree/master). It brings in env.js and screw.unit (plus strophejs for XMPP but not smoke, since I haven't used it yet). Makes it easy to run the specs (which is a big deal for me) while also making it easy to make fixes/enhancements to the components as necessary. Thanks for taking the time to write up your results. I’ve been looking for JS testing tools and following your blog entries.

One that I came across but haven’t seen you mention was Blue-Ridge (http://github.com/relevance/blue-ridge/tree/master). It’s not so much a testing framework as a meta-testing framework. That is, it integrates screw.unit with env.js and smoke. env.js provides command line support for screw.unit. as you noted isn’t in integrated into screw.unit.

I like the concept of Blue-Ridge, but there are few things about it I’m less thrilled about. For one, it’s focused on Rails and brings a lot of Rails stuff in that I don’t need (I use Rails, but not for this part of this project). The bigger issue is that it’s tricky to get all the different components coherently integrated and capable of tracking them as they evolve.

So I ended up creating my own integration package called Stage at http://github.com/smparkes/stage/tree/master). It brings in env.js and screw.unit (plus strophejs for XMPP but not smoke, since I haven’t used it yet). Makes it easy to run the specs (which is a big deal for me) while also making it easy to make fixes/enhancements to the components as necessary.

Thanks for taking the time to write up your results.

]]> By: nick http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/06/12/yet-another-day-of-test-driven-javascript-screwunit/#comment-108078 nick Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:41:22 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=385#comment-108078 Hi James Can u recommend a way of testing js redirects.I wnat o be able to test js links and redirects are going where they are supposed to be Hi James

Can u recommend a way of testing js redirects.I wnat o be able to test js links and redirects are going where they are supposed to be

]]> By: James Carr http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/06/12/yet-another-day-of-test-driven-javascript-screwunit/#comment-107434 James Carr Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:01:46 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=385#comment-107434 Thanks... I'm really hoping to expose people to more of what's out there. A lot of people skip test driving javascript when there's really quite a few solutions. :) Thanks… I’m really hoping to expose people to more of what’s out there. A lot of people skip test driving javascript when there’s really quite a few solutions. :)

]]> By: Mario Aquino http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/06/12/yet-another-day-of-test-driven-javascript-screwunit/#comment-107374 Mario Aquino Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:16:00 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=385#comment-107374 I love that you are doing this series on JS testing frameworks. Bravo! I love that you are doing this series on JS testing frameworks. Bravo!

]]> By: Milo http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/06/12/yet-another-day-of-test-driven-javascript-screwunit/#comment-107346 Milo Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:53:54 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=385#comment-107346 Nice writeup. Could you do me one thing though? Add this to your CSS markup: h2 { padding: 4px 3px } h4 { padding-bottom: 5px } Ktnxbai. Nice writeup. Could you do me one thing though? Add this to your CSS markup:

h2 { padding: 4px 3px }
h4 { padding-bottom: 5px }

Ktnxbai.

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