22 Bugs

Environment prerequisites

Make sure to install NodeJS before you continue.

Setting up the project in Visual Studio

Go into the web application directory:

cd .\MyWebApp

Install PhantomJS into the web application project:

npm install phantomjs-prebuilt --save-dev -g

Install casperjs (wrapper on top of PhantomJS to help with navigation, selectors and testing):

npm install casperjs --save-dev

Create tests.js with this content:

function Cow() {
    this.mowed = false;
    this.moo = function moo() {
        this.mowed = true; // mootable state: don't do that at home
        return 'moo!';
    };
}

casper.test.begin('Cow can moo', 2, function suite(test) {
    var cow = new Cow();
    test.assertEquals(cow.moo(), 'moo!');
    test.assert(cow.mowed);
    test.done();
});

Create run-tests.ps1 (it will run our tests). Paste this content into it:

$env:PHANTOMJS_EXECUTABLE=".\\node_modules\\phantomjs-prebuilt\\lib\\phantom\\bin\\phantomjs.exe"

node_modules/casperjs/bin/casperjs test tests.js

Run the file (from powershell.exe, not from Package Manager Console):

.\run-tests.ps1

To integrate with your gulp script, add this to your gulpfile.js:

var gulp = require("gulp");
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
gulp.task("integration-tests", function (callback) {
    exec("powershell.exe  -executionpolicy remotesigned . .\\run-tests.ps1", function (err, stdout) {
        console.log(stdout);
        callback(err);
    });
});

When running the gulp task you should see this output:

Test file: tests.js
# Cow can moo
PASS Subject equals the expected value
PASS Subject is strictly true
PASS Cow can moo (2 tests)
PASS 2 tests executed in 0.026s, 2 passed, 0 failed, 0 dubious, 0 skipped.
Process terminated with code 0.

To get started with writing tests, read casper docs.

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If you prefer bat files instead of ps1, then create this guy:

set PHANTOMJS_EXECUTABLE="%~dp0..\node_modules\phantomjs-prebuilt\lib\phantom\bin\phantomjs.exe"

%~dp0..\node_modules\casperjs\bin\casperjs test %~dp0tests.js --xunit=report.xml

To run the tests, just run the file by double-clicking on it in file explorer.