Testling is a browserling product that pkrumins and I put together to make running automated browser tests super easy.
Tests usually look something like this:
var test = require('testling');
test('json parse', function (t) {
t.deepEqual(
Object.keys({ a : 1, b : 2 }),
[ 'a', 'b' ]
);
t.end();
});
Then you can run the tests on all the browsers we run using a curl one-liner like this one:
curl -sSNT test.js -u mail@substack.net \
'http://testling.com/?browsers=chrome/16.0,firefox/9.0,safari/5.1,ie/9.0,ie/7.0'
and when the code blows up (in IE7 in this case because it doesn't have Object.keys), you get a full stack trace!
$ curl -sSNT test.js -u mail@substack.net \
'http://testling.com/?browsers=chrome/16.0,firefox/9.0,safari/5.1,ie/9.0,ie/7.0'
Enter host password for user 'mail@substack.net':
Bundling... done
chrome/16.0 1/1 100 % ok
firefox/9.0 1/1 100 % ok
safari/5.1 1/1 100 % ok
iexplore/9.0 1/1 100 % ok
iexplore/7.0 0/1 0 % ok
Error: [object Error]
at [anonymous]() in /test.js : line: 4, column: 5
at keys() in /test.js : line: 5, column: 9
at [anonymous]() in /test.js : line: 3, column: 29
at test() in /test.js : line: 3, column: 1
> t.deepEqual(
> Object.keys({ a : 1, b : 2 }),
> [ 'a', 'b' ]
> );
total 4/5 80 % ok
Wow super great! Except perhaps you don't like how the standard test API looks and want something more jasmine-esque and bdd-ish.
Just write a little wrapper like this:
var testling = require('testling');
module.exports = function describe (dname, cb) {
if (typeof dname === 'function') {
dcb = dname;
dname = undefined;
}
var ix = 0;
cb(function it (iname, cb) {
var name = (dname ? dname + ' :: ' : '') + (iname || 'test #' + ix++);
testling(name, function (t) {
var waiting = false;
t.wait = function () { waiting = true };
cb(t);
if (!waiting) t.end();
});
});
};
And now you can write your tests like so, require()ing the bdd wrapper node.js-style:
var describe = require('./bdd');
describe('arrays', function (it) {
it('should map', function (t) {
t.deepEqual(
[ 97, 98, 99 ].map(function (c) { return String.fromCharCode(c) }),
[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]
);
});
it('can do indexOf', function (t) {
t.equal([ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ].indexOf('c'), 2);
});
});
describe('tests', function (it) {
it('can wait', function (t) {
t.wait();
var start = Date.now();
setTimeout(function () {
var elapsed = Date.now() - start;
t.log(elapsed);
t.ok(elapsed >= 100);
t.end();
}, 100);
});
});
Now you have 2 files but you can still use a one-liner to stitch everything together:
$ tar -cf- bdd.js test.js | curl -sSNT- -u mail@substack.net \
'testling.com/?browsers=chrome/16.0,firefox/9.0,iexplore/9.0'
Enter host password for user 'mail@substack.net':
Bundling... done
chrome/16.0 3/3 100 % ok
Log: 101
firefox/9.0 3/3 100 % ok
Log: 115
iexplore/9.0 2/3 66 % ok
Log: 83
Assertion Error: not ok
at [anonymous]() in /test.js : line: 24, column: 13
at ok() in /test.js : line: 24, column: 13
at [anonymous]() in /test.js : line: 21, column: 29
at setTimeout() in /test.js : line: 21, column: 9
at [anonymous]() in /test.js : line: 17, column: 29
at it() in /test.js : line: 17, column: 5
at [anonymous]() in /test.js : line: 16, column: 28
> t.ok(elapsed >= 100);
total 8/9 88 % ok
...and strangely enough, IE9 only sleeps for 83 milliseconds when you tell it to sleep for 100! TYPICAL.
Check out the testling documentation, create a browserling account to use with testling, and hack up some crazy browser tests and test runners!
