Which testing-framework for Javascript supports Testing without a browser?

Question

For Javascript some testing-frameworks exist, like JSUnit or js-test-driver. They are fine, but they run the tests in a browser. That's fine, especially to verify your webapp is running in different browsers. But on out continuous-integration-server no window-system (and no browser) is installed. So is there a way to run the tests without the usage of a browser? The best would be to use one of the existing frameworks, so that developers can locally run the tests in their browsers and the continuous-integration-system runs them browserless.

Answer 1

You may be interested in HtmlUnit which is used by several UI-testing framework like WebDriver

Answer 2

jsTest can be run command line or as an eclipse plugin.

However, be careful, you will not get 100% code coverage using a tool like this if you need to support multiple browsers. Each browser implements JavaScript differently (i.e.: IE). Therefore, the only way to fully test your JavaScript is to run the tests in all browsers that you support.

Answer 3

Take a look at the following articles:

• JavaScript Unit Testing with Hudson and JasmineBDD
• JavaScript BDD, with Jasmine, without a browser

In addition, we have a jsTestDriver server running with a couple of web browsers (as remote console runners) as a resource for Jenkins, so you can have CI with testing in web browsers.