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[jira] [Updated] (SOLR-8473) Test Framework for Unit Testing Angular UI

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8473?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Upayavira updated SOLR-8473:
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    Description: 
The Solr UI has no tests. This is less than ideal. This ticket is aimed at facilitating discussion around such a test framework for unit testing components within the Angular UI.

Having a unit testing framework will encourage developers of the UI to make more modular, and thus hopefully cleaner, code, as well as providing a means to identify regressions.

The test framework I am proposing is a Karma/Jasmine combination. Karma runs the tests, Jasmine provides a BDD style framework for expressing the tests.

Karma and Jasmine can be installed via npm. This would add npm as a dependency for the Lucene/Solr build process, at least at release time.

Karma runs its tests within a browser. I will use, by default, Chrome. This is a bigger deal, as it will make our tests dependent upon a UI layer, such as X on Unix. 

I have looked into PhantomJS which is essentially the Javascript portion of a browser, but without the UI dependency, this would appear a much better solution for the headless scenario, however, I have as yet to get it to work (on MacOS). My next task would be to try it in a Linux VM.

> Test Framework for Unit Testing Angular UI
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-8473
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8473
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: web gui
>    Affects Versions: 5.4
>            Reporter: Upayavira
>            Assignee: Upayavira
>
> The Solr UI has no tests. This is less than ideal. This ticket is aimed at facilitating discussion around such a test framework for unit testing components within the Angular UI.
> Having a unit testing framework will encourage developers of the UI to make more modular, and thus hopefully cleaner, code, as well as providing a means to identify regressions.
> The test framework I am proposing is a Karma/Jasmine combination. Karma runs the tests, Jasmine provides a BDD style framework for expressing the tests.
> Karma and Jasmine can be installed via npm. This would add npm as a dependency for the Lucene/Solr build process, at least at release time.
> Karma runs its tests within a browser. I will use, by default, Chrome. This is a bigger deal, as it will make our tests dependent upon a UI layer, such as X on Unix. 
> I have looked into PhantomJS which is essentially the Javascript portion of a browser, but without the UI dependency, this would appear a much better solution for the headless scenario, however, I have as yet to get it to work (on MacOS). My next task would be to try it in a Linux VM.



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