The @dojo/test-extras repository has been deprecated and moved to @dojo/framework/testing

You can read more about this change on our blog. We will continue providing patches for test-extras and other Dojo 2 repositories, and a CLI migration tool is available to aid in migrating projects from v2 to v3.

@dojo/test-extras

Provides a simple API for testing and asserting Dojo 2 widget's expected virtual DOM and behavior.

• Features
• harness
  • Custom Comparators
• selectors
• harness.expect
• harness.expectPartial
• harness.trigger
• Licensing Information

Features

• Simple, familiar and minimal API
• Focused on testing Dojo 2 virtual DOM structures
• No DOM requirement by default
• Full functional and tsx support

harness

harness() is the primary API when working with @dojo/test-extras, essentially setting up each test and providing a context to perform virtual DOM assertions and interactions. Designed to mirror the core behavior for widgets when updating properties or children and widget invalidation, with no special or custom logic required.

API

harness(renderFunction: () => WNode, customComparators?: CustomComparator[]): Harness;

• renderFunction: A function that returns a WNode for the widget under test
• customComparators: Array of custom comparator descriptors. Each provides a comparator function to be used during the comparison for properties located using a selector and property name

The harness returns a Harness object that provides a small API for interacting with the widget under test:

Harness

• expect: Performs an assertion against the full render output from the widget under test.
• expectPartial: Performs an assertion against a section of the render output from the widget under test.
• trigger: Used to trigger a function from a node on the widget under test's API
• getRender: Returns a render from the harness based on the index provided

Setting up a widget for testing is simple and familiar using the w() function from @dojo/widget-core:

class MyWidget extends WidgetBase<{ foo: string; }> {
    protected render() {
        const { foo } = this.properties;
        return v('div', { foo }, this.children);
    }
}

const h = harness(() => w(MyWidget, { foo: 'bar' }, [ 'child' ]));

The harness also supports tsx usage as show below. For the rest of the README the examples will be using the programmatic w() API, there are more examples of tsx in the unit tests.

const h = harness(() => <MyWidget foo='bar'>child</MyWidget>);

The renderFunction is lazily executed so it can include additional logic to manipulate the widget's properties and children between assertions.

let foo = 'bar';

const h = harness(() => {
    return w(MyWidget, { foo }, [ 'child' ]));
};

h.expect(/** assertion that includes bar **/);
// update the property that is passed to the widget
foo = 'foo';
h.expect(/** assertion that includes foo **/)

Custom Comparators

There are circumstances where the exact value of a property is unknown during testing, so will require the use of a custom compare descriptor.

The descriptors have a selector to locate the virtual nodes to check, a property name for the custom compare and a comparator function that receives the actual value and returns a boolean result for the assertion.

const compareId = {
    selector: '*', // all nodes
    property: 'id',
    comparator: (value: any) => typeof value === 'string' // checks the property value is a string
};

const h = harness(() => w(MyWidget, {}), [ compareId ]);

For all assertions, using the returned harness API will now only test identified id properties using the comparator instead of the standard equality.

selectors

The harness APIs commonly support a concept of CSS style selectors to target nodes within the virtual DOM for assertions and operations. Review the full list of supported selectors for more information.

In addition to the standard API:

• The @ symbol is supported as shorthand for targeting a node's key property
• The classes property is used instead of class when using the standard shorthand . for targeting classes

harness.expect

The most common requirement for testing is to assert the structural output from a widget's render function. expect accepts a render function that returns the expected render output from the widget under test.

API

expect(expectedRenderFunction: () => DNode | DNode[], actualRenderFunction?: () => DNode | DNode[]);

• expectedRenderFunction: A function that returns the expected DNode structure of the queried node
• actualRenderFunction: An optional function that returns the actual DNode structure to be asserted

h.expect(() => v('div', { key: 'foo'}, [
    w(Widget, { key: 'child-widget' }),
    'text node',
    v('span', { classes: [ 'class' ] })
]));

Optionally expect can accepts a second parameter of function that returns a render result to assert against.

h.expect(() => v('div', { key: 'foo'}), () => v('div', { key: 'foo' }));

If the actual render output and expected render output are different, an exception is thrown with a structured visualization indicating all differences with (A) (the actual value) and (E) (the expected value).

Example assertion failure output:

v("div", {
    "classes": [
        "root",
(A)     "other"
(E)     "another"
    ],
    "onclick": "function"
}, [
    v("span", {
        "classes": "span",
        "id": "random-id",
        "key": "label",
        "onclick": "function",
        "style": "width: 100px"
    }, [
        "hello 0"
    ])
    w(ChildWidget, {
        "id": "random-id",
        "key": "widget"
    })
    w("registry-item", {
        "id": true,
        "key": "registry"
    })
])

harness.expectPartial

expectPartial asserts against a section of the widget's render output based on a selector.

API

expectPartial(selector: string, expectedRenderFunction: () => DNode | DNode[]);

• selector: The selector query to find the node to target
• expectedRenderFunction: A function that returns the expected DNode structure of the queried node
• actualRenderFunction: An optional function that returns the actual DNode structure to be asserted

Example usage:

h.expectPartial('@child-widget', () => w(Widget, { key: 'child-widget' }));

harness.trigger

harness.trigger() calls a function with the name on the node targeted by the selector.

interface FunctionalSelector {
    (node: VNode | WNode): undefined | Function;
}

trigger(selector: string, functionSelector: string | FunctionalSelector, ...args: any[]): any;

• selector: The selector query to find the node to target
• functionSelector: Either the name of the function to call from found node's properties or a functional selector that returns a function from a nodes properties.
• args: The arguments to call the located function with

Returns the result of the function triggered if one is returned.

Example Usage(s):

// calls the `onclick` function on the first node with a key of `foo`
h.trigger('@foo', 'onclick');

// calls the `customFunction` function on the first node with a key of `bar` with an argument of `100`
// and receives the result of the triggered function
const result = h.trigger('@bar', 'customFunction', 100);

harness.getRender

harness.getRender() returns the render with the index provided, when no index is provided it returns the last render.

getRender(index?: number);

• index: The index of the render result to return

Example Usage(s):

// Returns the result of the last render
const render = h.getRender();

// Returns the result of the render for the index provided
h.getRender(1);

Licensing information

© 2018 JS Foundation. New BSD license.