Do you render the HTML and examine the screen as part of your test suite? If not, why would you execute the JavaScript?

Pretty much everyone verifies HTML by comparing it to a known good output with regexes or the like. There's no reason JavaScript can't be treated the same way.

Testing the actual quality of the JavaScript and HTML is a separate task which is typically done manually by live people who load it up on different platforms and look at it. Although it sounds theoretically possible to automate JavaScript testing to the point that one could tell whether or not the code produces errors, I've never heard of anyone really doing it with an automated test.

In reply to Re^7: Using Perl to Test a Web App that uses Javascript by perrin
in thread Using Perl to Test a Web App that uses Javascript by coolmichael

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