qqunit

I was once lost, but now I'm found.

This is the QUnit test framework for nodejs v0.4 and v0.6.

Why QUnit and not nodeunit or mocha?

• QUnit is awesome. Super stable, well maintained, fast, has handy stuff, and widely used already for browser testing.
• QUnit is simple, yet still extensible. It makes for easier to read, more uniform tests when you have fewer ways of expressing what you are testing.
• Did you see that? qqunit is meant explicitly for testing something in the browser and in node using the same suite. Mocha supports this as well but I find QUnit to be faster and better written.

Why not node-qunit?

• Incompatible APIs between 0.4 and 0.6, but if that doesn't matter:
• An unnecessary multiprocess model which makes anything other than console.log debugging really hard
• Absurd console output for test runs, without any indication of progress.
• Inability to test data structures with circular references

How do I use it?

A simple example:

qqunit = require 'qqunit'
tests = glob.sync("#{__dirname}/test/**/*_test.coffee")
qqunit.Runner.run tests

or

 you@host $: npm install qqunit
 you@host $: qqunit test_a.coffee test_b.coffee

More complex:

glob = require 'glob'
path = require 'path'
qqunit = require 'qqunit'

# Load jquery into window
jqueryPath = path.join(__dirname, 'lib', 'jquery.js')

qqunit.Environment.jsdom.jQueryify window, jQueryPath, (window, jQuery) ->
  global.jQuery = jQuery

  # Load test helper
  Helper = require './batman/test_helper'
  global[k] = v for own k,v of Helper

  global.MyCoolCode = require '../src/my_cool_code'

  tests = glob.sync("#{__dirname}/**/*_test.coffee")

  console.log "Running test suite. #{tests.length} files required."
  qqunit.Runner.run tests, (stats) ->
    process.exit stats.failed

Horray!

Background

qqunit came from me being really, really sad. node-qunit put me in a dark place, but out I have come with less than 100 lines of CoffeeScript which accomplish the same thing. qqunit is stupid simple: run QUnit inside jsdom and add some log statements to show you how it goes in the console.

License

qqunit is copyright 2012 by Shopify, released under the MIT License (see LICENSE for details).