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# `testharness.js` test suite
The test suite for the `testharness.js` testing framework.
## Executing Tests
Install the following dependencies:
Make sure `geckodriver` can be found in your `PATH`.
Currently, the tests should be run with the latest *Firefox Nightly*. In order to
specify the path to Firefox Nightly, use the following command-line option:
tox -- --binary=/path/to/FirefoxNightly
### Automated Script
Alternatively, you may run `tools/ci/ci_resources_unittest.sh`, which only depends on
Python 2. The script will install other dependencies automatically and start `tox` with
the correct arguments.
## Authoring Tests
Test cases are expressed as `.html` files located within the `tests/unit/` and
`tests/functional/` sub-directories. Each test should include the
`testharness.js` library with the following markup:
<script src="/resources/testharness.js"></script>
<script src="/resources/testharnessreport.js"></script>
This should be followed by one or more `<script>` tags that interface with the
`testharness.js` API in some way. For example:
<script>
test(function() {
1 = 1;
}, 'This test is expected to fail.');
</script>
### Unit tests
The "unit test" type allows for concisely testing the expected behavior of
assertion methods. These tests may define any number of sub-tests; the
acceptance criteria is simply that all tests executed pass.
### Functional tests
Thoroughly testing the behavior of the harness itself requires ensuring a
number of considerations which cannot be verified with the "unit testing"
strategy. These include:
- Ensuring that some tests are not run
- Ensuring conditions that cause test failures
- Ensuring conditions that cause harness errors
Functional tests allow for these details to be verified. Every functional test
must include a summary of the expected results as a JSON string within a
`<script>` tag with an `id` of `"expected"`, e.g.:
<script type="text/json" id="expected">
{
"summarized_status": {
"message": null,
"stack": null,
"status_string": "OK"
},
"summarized_tests": [
{
"message": "ReferenceError: invalid assignment left-hand side",
"name": "Sample HTML5 API Tests",
"properties": {},
"stack": "(implementation-defined)",
"status_string": "FAIL"
}
],
"type": "complete"
}
</script>