Unit Testing

Project Name

JavaScript Unit Testing

Project Description

Use an existing unit testing framework (or create one) and demonstrate its use by writing a collection of unit tests that fully test a browser feature of your choosing. The framework will provide decent setup and teardown code that will enable the programmer to start the browser, run the tests, report pass/fail and shutdown the browser.

Project Leader(s)

Paul Yanchun Gu (IRC: gpaul)

Project Contributor(s)

• Dave Humphrey (dave or humph)
• Rob Campbell

Project Details

November 18, 2006

• There two very good references here for MOZ developing
  • http://kb.mozillazine.org/Setting_up_extension_development_environment
  • http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dev_:_Useful_prefs

November 12, 2006

• Try to find most function calls in Firefox, cannot get it work.
• Try to display the firefox console for debugging ,the Firefox 2 cannot brings up console when I tried to user command: firefox.exe -console. In error console from the firefox menu, it displayed an error message: cannot recongnize the command -console.

November 10, 2006

• Fixed exception error, change window.attachEvent("onload", testerWindow.startup(), false) to window.attachEvent("onload", testerWindow.startup());
• Trying to get error console working for debugging ...
• dump, setting the preference browser.dom.window.dump.enabled to true in Firefox, then start FF in console: -console
• DOM:window

November 9, 2006

• When I try to run the bookmark tester, I got this error:
  • Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument" nsresult: "0x80570009 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://bookmarkstester/content/testerWindow.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 134" data: no]

October 27, 2006

• Had really hard time on trying to understand how to build and run a test case. This involves the following technologies that I had never learned before:
  • XUL
  • install.rdf
  • chrome.manifest
  • Extension Wizard generator

• Had read the links from Dave, it's very interesting, it's called test_nodelist.

• Learning how to build an extension for fox...
  • Creating a status bar extension
  • Building an Extension

• Collected related topics and examples.
  • MDC
  • JSUnit
  • BookmarkTester
  • Rob Blog

Project News

• Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:07 pm, Rob helped me to get start on JSUnit Testing.

• Monday, September 18, 2006 8:36 am, Dave helped me to connect to Rob Campbell, who is from Mozilla QA team. He explained to me about Unit Testing used in Mozilla.

• Wednesday, October 4, 2006, Saw this interesting post about test cases in Mozilla, and the code example is quite useful.