Unit testing Macro JavaScripts

[Robert Krause]

I am developing plugins that use JavaScript, and I want to write Unit Tests for them using Jasmine. Since they use a lot of functions from AJS and other JavaScript supplied by Atlassian I would like to know if there are any best practises regarding that topic. Is there easy access to the required JS files or is it neccessary to mock every AJS (etc. ) function I use in my JavaScript?

[Robert Krause · Accepted solution]

So I figured out the best way to do this is to run karma with maven as atlassian suggests. However this is not always what you want to do (because Maven) so I started to work on a mock for AJS, that you can use if you do not want to include the complete AJS. Feel free to contibute.

[Felix Grund (Scandio)]

We had the same question regarding our company-internal Confluence JS libraries we wanted to unit test. We thought about two alternatives: (1) include the whole AJS stuff as testing dependencies; (2) mock only the AJS contents we use in our libs. In the end we went with approach (2), since we didn't want to maintain somehing like 2 MB of AJS code that needs updates regularly. I don't know if there are further alternatives though.

[Robert Krause]

I figured out Atlassian provides a way to automate this with maven. Works pretty good for me.

https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-karma-test-runner-support