Consider some code that you call before or after a test, and you have to duplicate that in more than one test, maybe dozens. Instead of extracting a function a calling that each time, just specify setup or teardown once for the module.
Jörn On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good news. I don't quite understand what are they for (setup & > teardown). > What's a real world application ? the demos on the docs are not too > realistic. > > -- > Ariel Flesler > http://flesler.blogspot.com/ > > On Sep 21, 1:56 pm, "Jörn Zaefferer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've landed a few updates to QUnit: To start with, there is now a >> testsuite to test QUnit:http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/qunit-test >> (requires a checkout, due to svn:externals) >> >> Tests so far cover only the newly module-based setup/teardown >> callbacks. These allow you to define code that runs before and after >> each test in a module. More:http://docs.jquery.com/QUnit/module >> >> Other changes affect the global variables exposed by QUnit: Instead of >> making everything global, only the public API is exposed, everything >> else is private. That public API still includes names like q() and >> t(), but that is another story. >> >> I've tested against jQuery core and the validation plugin, both run >> fine, and jQuery UI all, which had 69 failing tests already, while not >> being affected by the changes, as far as I can tell. >> >> I'm planning to clean up some of the legacy stuf, like the mentioned >> q() and t() functions, and once that is done, to start versioning >> QUnit, including a latest tag. >> >> Jörn > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
