Browserless AJAX Testing with Rhino and Envjs, Part 1.

Browserless AJAX Testing with Rhino and Envjs, Part 1.

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

tags:  javascript,  dom,  django, envjs,  ajax,  python,  test,  rhino

Updates - 5/27/2011

Since this original post, there has been a lot of good feedback surrounding getting an Envjs + QUnit + Rhino setup going, so please read the comments at the bottom of this post. Here are the summarized points:

• QUnit: Newer versions of QUnit have issues with Envjs, adding a <pre/> to output that Envjs can’t handle. A comment from “Ryan” (not me – I’m “Ryan Roemer” below) also points out the QUnit has changed the function signature of the logging callbacks and links to an improved ”setup.js” file. I have inserted links to a known working version of QUnit.
• jQuery 1.5: jQuery 1.5+ also has issues with Envjs due to calls to a couple of methods not currently available in either Envjs 1.2 or 1.3. There is a patch on GitHub for the issue for Envjs 1.3. I have backported the patch (and some other fixes) to a forked version of Envjs 1.2 on my GitHub account.
• Envjs 1.3: Envjs 1.2 was a single file, with primarily Rhino support. Envjs 1.3 is massive enhancement project that supports a large number of JavaScript engines including: Node.js, SpiderMonkey, etc. It’s still in early development, but definitely worth taking a look at.

Introduction

This is the first of two blog posts focusing on browserless testing of AJAX / JavaScript using Rhino and Envjs. Today, we discuss getting browserless QUnit tests up and running from the command line. A follow-on post will discuss running QUnit