Question

How to easily integrate Jenkins with qUnit? I gonna use real browser (like firefox and chrome) to run tests. My server runs on RedHat 6.1 Linux. I think I have all needed plugins/libraries but I still don’t know how to make it working. I’m working with Jenkins 1st time (on server side).

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It would be wonderful if someone can share idea how to build coverage report too.

Thanks in advance :).

Answer 1

Saying Jenkins and QUnit is only part of the puzzle. You still need a web browser and a way to get a JUnit style XML file from the QUnit results on to disk. While there is Selenium and Webdriver for controlling numerous browsers, the easiest way to get started is to use PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/). PhantomJS is a headless webkit based browser meant just for tasks like this.

If you browse the “Test Frameworks” sections of this page ( http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/WhoUsesPhantomJS ) you will see several scripts for running QUnit (some with JSCoverage support). The phantomjs-jscoverage-qunit script looks like it will hit all the major points you want to hit, as does United. Both look like they will require some fiddling to get them going though.

Alas, I haven’t discovered any method for running QUnit tests and getting JUnit output for either Selenium, WebDriver, or PhantomJS that will just work without modification.

EDIT: Now several months later, it have become clear to me that webdriver is the future of Selenium (it probably should have been clear to me back then, but it wasn’t). Also, PhantomJS now works with WebDriver via GhostDriver, so supporting only WebDriver and choosing PhantomJS as a target is probably the best advice going forward.