Good news everyone! Just finished a heavy refactoring on the jQuery testsuite. It features a quite heavy change on writing and running tests: Inline tests are history, all tests can now be placed inside their own files or within script tags. The jQuery src directory contains now additonal files ending with "Test.js", that contain all tests for the jQuery core. The two plugins that currently have their own testsuite in the repository, form and methods, were updated, too.
Why this change? It is now possible to write and modify tests and run them instantly, without running any build files. This makes the process of writing, running and testing tests way more easier and attractive. Anothe very important new feature: It is now possible to call expect(Number) at the start of every tests. The number specifies the amount of expected assertions. Tests that fail completely won't slip through with "0 failed out of 0", instead report "Expected 1 assertions, but 0 were run". This makes the testsuite much more reliable. For example, the test that should have covered the problem mentioned in bug #407 (http://jquery.com/dev/bugs/bug/407/) now fails correctly in the testsuite. I recommend for every plugin writer to take a look at the offcial testsuite and those of the form and methods plugin, and consider writing tests for you own plugins. It's quite likely that I have overseen something while converting the tests, please report or fix any problems you spot. Have fun! -- Jörn Zaefferer http://bassistance.de _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
