web/client Unit Tests/E2E Tests

[gumbyscout]

We seriously need to start writing at least unit tests for the web client. Writing 'good' tests never has really clicked with me, so I'll definitely need help from someone else when it comes to giving the web app code coverage. Also, we need to determine what test runners/frameworks we want to use so I can some how integrate them into our build, possible through creating a gulp script or the like. Thoughts?

[nictuku]

I spent a few minutes reading about gulp and I did not fall in love with it. It seems way too simple to be useful for me. It's just a shell script /Makefile in javascript ? :-P

I'm a bit that surprised gulp seems to be the industry standard.

I guess we also need to find the web test framework itself. I only know WebDriver and friends.

[gumbyscout]

Gulp is more than a makefile. It's a streaming task runner that has access to web technologies that we are using as first class citizens. If it runs on node, you can plug it into gulp, and a lot of tools even have specialized interfaces for gulp to use. If JSPM wasn't handling our module loading and minification, you could write tasks to concat, minify, transpile, and export all the javascript files, while also running tests on them and making sure they fit our coding guidelines. You can do complicated chains pretty easily.

[gumbyscout]

I got a test runner working yesterday, and with react's testutils, you can effectively do E2E tests with it. I.E. you can trigger events and such.