Simple tool, that allows you to execute JavaScript code in multiple real browsers, powered by Node.js and Socket.io.
The main purpose is to make your TDD development easy, fast and fun...
sudo npm install -g testacular
# or install in local folder (you have to create symlinks to binaries on your own)
npm install testacularYou can install Testacular even without NPM, just get the latest package and create symlinks:
# replace x.y.z with latest version
curl http://registry.npmjs.org/testacular/-/testacular-x.y.z.tgz | tar -xv && mv package testacular
# create symlinks (optional)
cd testacular
sudo ln -s $PWD/bin/testacular /usr/local/bin/testacular
sudo ln -s $PWD/bin/testacular-run /usr/local/bin/testacularMostly for testing you code in multiple browsers (desktop, mobile, tablets):
- executing tests during development
- executing tests on continuous integration server
Go into your project and create a testacular configuration. Basically you need to specify the source files that you want to execute.
For an example configuration, see test/client/config.js which contains most of the options.
# start server
testacular your-project.conf
# open browsers you want to test
open http://localhost:8080
# if you want to run tests manually (without auto watching file changes), you can:
testacular-runTestacular is not a testing framework, so that you can use pretty much anything you like.
However, we provide an adapter for Jasmine. If you wanna write an adapter for your favourite testing framework, that's great - check out adapter/jasmine.src.js and write your own.
During development of AngularJS, we've been using JSTD for testing. I really think, it's a great idea. Unfortunately, we had many problems with JSTD, so we decided to write our own tool, without testing frameworks or anything you actually don't need. Just a simple tool for execution JavaScript, that is stable and fast. That's why we use awesome Socket.io library. More than that, with Node.js, we can execute JavaScript even without any browser, which is much faster, so it's very helpful during development, when we need to get the feedback as quick as possible.
If you are thinking about making Testacular better, or you just want to hack on it, that's great - go and fork the repo.
git clone git://github.com/vojtajina/testacular.git # or clone your fork
cd testacular
sudo npm install . --dev # install all dev dependencies (such as jake, jasmine-node, etc...)Check out jake -T for all available tasks.
If you have any further questions, join the mailing list or submit an issue.
You can follow @TestacularJS as well.