[Sugar-devel] Unit tests in Sugar HTML

[Daniel Narvaez]

Figured out. I had first tried to install it from git, but without running
the grunt file. Then I installed from npm, but the git built was stuck in
the cache... Confusing!


On 19 May 2013 18:31, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't quite get karma to work
>
>
> INFO [karma]: Karma server started at http://localhost:9876/
> WARN [watcher]: Pattern
> "/home/dnarvaez/Development/sugar-build/build/out/install/lib/node_modules/karma/adapter/jasmine.js"
> does not match any file.
> WARN [watcher]: Pattern
> "/home/dnarvaez/Development/sugar-build/build/out/install/lib/node_modules/karma/adapter/require.js"
> does not match any file.
> WARN [web server]: 404:
> /home/dnarvaez/Development/sugar-build/build/out/install/lib/node_modules/karma/static/testacular.js
> WARN [web server]: 404:
> /home/dnarvaez/Development/sugar-build/build/out/install/lib/node_modules/karma/static/testacular.js
>
> Looks like testacular.js and jasmine are not installed. Tried both 0.8.5
> in git and from npm.
>
>
>
> On 13 May 2013 16:22, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .. manuq ..
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>
>
>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez
>



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