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Everything that you want to know (or not) about Douglas Crockford.

Or following things live on Twitter.

I contributed a few of my own like:

“Crockford doesn’t throw errors, he roundhouse kicks them.”

Andrew Lunny also directed me to this site with some Resig facts … hilarity!

Tags: JavaScript.

QUnit is a great little JavaScript test framework written by none other than John Resig of jQuery fame.

I love how easy it is to write tests, especially asynchronous ones, with QUnit and so was quick to start using it for my JavaScript tests.

The one thing that I found it lacked was support for continuous integration products like Hudson, CruiseControl or Continuum. So I figured that I would change that.

For a long time I have been using JsUnit along with JsUnit Server to merge in client side JavaScript test results with a server side test integration workflow. Essentially, JsUnit Server is a Jetty server and JsUnit posts back a form with test results to that server, which logs the results to standard JUnit formatted test results files. Those files can then be read by most continuous integration products and included in their reporting.

What I decided to do was hack QUnit so that it too could submit test results back to the JsUnit Server in the same format that JsUnit submits results and could therefore continue using the same JsUnit Server workflow and simply change the client JavaScript test framework to QUnit. It worked like a charm!

I wrote a couple of simple function that in the background dynamically create an HTML form in the QUnit test page and add the results to the form as each test is run. When the tests are complete the page submits back to the JsUnit Server and the test results are logged as they were when I was using JsUnit.

It is some pretty simple changes but does make using QUnit that much better, especially if you were hesitant to switch just because the continuous integration support was not there for QUnit.

Check it out on GitHub.

Tags: continuous integration, JavaScript, qunit, Testing.