Testing Dojo applications

• Run a project's test suite

dojo test

Dojo uses @dojo/cli-test-intern for running unit and functional tests in your tests folder.

Running specific test suites

Dojo supports two types of testing approaches, unit and functional. Unit tests are tests run via node and the local Selenium tunnel and test isolated blocks of code. Functional tests are run using Selenium in the browser and test the overall functionality of the software as a user would interact with it. Running unit and functional tests against Selenium requires running the appropriate build using @dojo/cli-build-app.

• Run a project's unit test suite

dojo test --unit --config local

• Run a project's functional test suite locally in a headless Chrome instance using Selenium.

dojo test --functional --config local

Writing unit tests

• Using Dojo's harness API for unit testing widgets.

src/widgets/Home.tsx

import { create, tsx } from '@dojo/framework/core/vdom';
import * as css from './Home.m.css';

const factory = create();

const Home = factory(function Home() {
    return <h1 classes={[css.root]}>Home Page</h1>;
});

export default Home;

tests/unit/widgets/Home.tsx

const { describe, it } = intern.getInterface('bdd');
import { tsx } from '@dojo/framework/core/vdom';
import harness from '@dojo/framework/testing/harness';
import assertionTemplate from '@dojo/framework/testing/assertionTemplate';

import Home from '../../../src/widgets/Home';
import * as css from '../../../src/widgets/Home.m.css';

const baseTemplate = assertionTemplate(() => <h1 classes={[css.root]}>Home Page</h1>);

describe('Home', () => {
    it('default renders correctly', () => {
        const h = harness(() => <Home />);
        h.expect(baseTemplate);
    });
});

The harness API allows you to verify that the output of a rendered widget is what you expect.

• Does it render as expected?
• Do event handlers work as expected?

Writing functional tests

Functional tests allow a UI page to be loaded and its code executed in a real browser to better test widget behavior.

Writing functional tests means specifying the interaction that a user would have with a page in terms of clicking on elements, then validating the resulting page content.

tests/functional/main.ts

describe('routing', () => {
    it('profile page correctly loads', ({ remote }) => {
        return (
            remote
                // loads the HTML file in local node server
                .get('../../output/dev/index.html')
                // find the id of the anchor tag
                .findById('profile')
                // click on the link
                .click()
                // end this action
                .end()
                // find the h1 tag
                .findByTagName('h1')
                // get the text in the h1 tag
                .getVisibleText()
                .then((text) => {
                    // verify the content of the h1 tag on the profile page
                    assert.equal(text, 'Welcome Dojo User!');
                })
        );
    });
});

Using assertion templates

Assertion templates provide a way to create a base assertion that allow parts of the expected output to vary between tests.

• Given a widget that renders output differently based on property values:

src/widgets/Profile.tsx

import { create, tsx } from '@dojo/framework/core/vdom';

import * as css from './Profile.m.css';

export interface ProfileProperties {
    username?: string;
}

const factory = create().properties<ProfileProperties>();

const Profile = factory(function Profile({ properties }) {
    const { username } = properties();
    return <h1 classes={[css.root]}>{`Welcome ${username || 'Stranger'}!`}</h1>;
});

export default Profile;

• Create an assertion template using @dojo/framework/testing/assertionTemplate

tests/unit/widgets/Profile.tsx

const { describe, it } = intern.getInterface('bdd');
import { tsx } from '@dojo/framework/core/vdom';
import assertionTemplate from '@dojo/framework/testing/assertionTemplate';
import harness from '@dojo/framework/testing/harness';

import Profile from '../../../src/widgets/Profile';
import * as css from '../../../src/widgets/Profile.m.css';

// Create an assertion
const profileAssertion = assertionTemplate(() => (
    <h1 classes={[css.root]} assertion-key="welcome">
        Welcome Stranger!
    </h1>
));

describe('Profile', () => {
    it('default renders correctly', () => {
        const h = harness(() => <Profile />);
        // Test against my base assertion
        h.expect(profileAssertion);
    });
});

A value can be provided to any virtual DOM node under test using assertion-key properties defined in the assertion template. Note: when v() and w() from @dojo/framework/core/vdom are used, the ~key property serves the same purpose.

tests/unit/widgets/Profile.tsx

describe('Profile', () => {
    it('default renders correctly', () => {
        const h = harness(() => <Profile />);
        // Test against my base assertion
        h.expect(profileAssertion);
    });

    it('renders given username correctly', () => {
        // update the expected result with a given username
        const namedAssertion = profileAssertion.setChildren('~welcome', () => ['Welcome Kel Varnsen!']);
        const h = harness(() => <Profile username="Kel Varnsen" />);
        h.expect(namedAssertion);
    });
});

Using the setChildren method of an assertion template with the assigned assertion-key value, ~welcome in this case, will return an assertion template with the updated virtual DOM structure. This resulting assertion template can then be used to test widget output.