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Jasmine (Javascript Unit Tests)

Jasmine unit/behavioral tests are used to test JavaScript code that runs in the browser. These tests are run against both Firefox and Chrome browsers via a GitHub action, which is triggered against all pull requests and commits to the main branch.

The test specs can be found in ./tests/unit/.

Running Jasmine tests

Jasmine and its dependencies are installed via npm and are included when you run make preflight to install the main dependencies.

make preflight

Next, make sure you activate your virtual env.

pyenv activate bedrock

pyenv activate springfield

You can then run the full suite of Jasmine tests with the following command:

npm run test

This will also run all our front-end linters and formatting checks before running the Jasmine test suite. If you only want to run the tests themselves, you can run:

npm run jasmine

Writing Jasmine tests

See the Jasmine documentation for tips on how to write JS behavioral or unit tests. We also use Sinon for creating test spies, stubs and mocks.

Debugging Jasmine tests

If you need to debug Jasmine tests, you can also run them interactively in the browser using the following command:

npm run jasmine-serve