Support autospec-style automatic refresh and failure notifications for the browser runner

[rsutphin]

My normal operating procedure when doing client-side BDD with shenandoah is to open several browsers to the spec I'm working on and, as I work, periodically manually refresh each one to verify that the specs are still passing.

It would be nice to have the browsers automatically do this for me and notify me when something fails. This will require:

• A way for the browser runner to know when the source files have changed
• A way for the browser runner to notify the server when a build passes or fails
• A way for the server to report failures (start with terminal reports, but perhaps autospec/autotest has something that can be reused for growl notifications, etc)

Automatic refresh should not be on by default -- it should be controllable in the browser when looking at a single spec or at the multirunner.

[benrady]

Have you looked at watchr? Might give you some of what you want.

[rsutphin]

Thanks for the suggestion. However, since the part of the system that needs to know when the test files change is running in javascript in a web browser, I don't think I can use it.

I could push the changes down from the server (instead of having the spec runner clients pull them), but that would be quite a bit more complicated and I don't think it's warranted.

[rsutphin]

Consider using faye for the browser-server notifications.