329721 - a real javascript unittest framework

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Safe Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[Fritz Schneider]

Right now we're doing something really, really cheesey for unittests: defining them in functions at the end of our source files and then calling these functions explicitly when we're in debug mode. Blech. We need a real framework, one that:

- can print the source of the test that failed
- has a useful library of CHECK methods
- can provide XUL or HTML docs to test functions
- (maybe) can read source files
- etc

Lots of work has been done on unittesting; let's learn from what's out there.

Comment 1

[Dave Liebreich [:davel]]

Hi Fritz,

Thanks for expressing interest.  What area or areas of this project would you like to start working on?

Comment 2

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

Hi Fritz,

You should check out mochitest. Search for it on MDC.