> On 2 Mar 2016, at 05:55, Haohui Mai <ricet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 on adding npm / gulp / mocha to be part of the build dependencies > (not runtime). The main benefit is modularity -- for example, in the > HDFS UI we manually duplicate the navigation bars and footer. We don't > have unit tests for them due to the lack of infrastructure. > > In my opinion Introducing npm will effectively bridge the gap.
Still need a plan for testing any web UI with .js in the mix; it's a lot harder than for static HTML. HtmlUnit should be able to handle it: it uses the JVM's own Javascript engine to interpret the code —has anyone looked at using this to test the new UIs?
