[Sugar-devel] Unit tests in Sugar HTML

[Manuel Quiñones]

Hello,

As I am currently implementing sugar palettes in HTML, I want to get
the logic right, so I need unit tests.  Then I started to investigate
unit testing in javascript.

After looking for a bit, I decided to give a try to Jasmine framework,
which is AngularJS choice.

http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/

My first attempt was running the tests in the command line with jasmine-node.

https://github.com/mhevery/jasmine-node

But soon I realized that testing without access to the DOM is very
limited.  For example, a palette needs to add a <div> to the document.
 And my second test failed in jasmine-node because of that.

So I went for Karma (previously named Testacular).

http://karma-runner.github.io/

It was easy to configure using RequireJS like is documented in:

http://karma-runner.github.io/0.8/plus/RequireJS.html

And it works!  You can try installing Karma (npm install -g karma) and
then checking out in my clockjs activity.

git checkout git://github.com/manuq/clockjs.git
cd clockjs/lib/sugar-html-graphics
karma start

And then point a browser to the URL in the output, which points to Karma server.

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