Module test
A test runner compliant to the CommonJS Unit Testing specification.
Functions
- getStackTrace(trace)
- getType(obj)
- jsDump(value, lvl)
- jsDump.indent(lvl)
- jsDump.quote(str)
- run(scope, name, writer)
getStackTrace (trace)
Creates a stack trace and parses it for display.
Parameters
| java.lang.StackTraceElement | trace | The trace to parse. If not given a stacktrace will be generated |
Returns
| String | The parsed stack trace |
getType (obj)
Returns the type of the object passed as argument. This is heavily inspired by http://philrathe.com/articles/equiv and tlrobinson's narwhal test module (http://github.com/tlrobinson/narwhal/)
Parameters
| null | obj |
Returns
| String | The type of the object passed as argument |
jsDump (value, lvl)
Converts the value passed as argument into a nicely formatted and indented string
Parameters
| Object | value | The value to convert into a string |
| Number | lvl | Optional indentation level (defaults to zero) |
Returns
| String | The string representation of the object passed as argument |
run (scope, name, writer)
The main runner method. This method can be called with one, two or three
arguments: run(scope), run(scope, nameOfTest),
run(scope, writer) or run(scope, nameOfTest, writer)
Parameters
| String|Object | scope | Either the path to a module containing unit tests to execute, or an object containing the exported test methods or nested scopes. |
| String | name | Optional name of a test method to execute |
| Object | writer | Optional writer to use for displaying the test results. Defaults to TermWriter. |