Implement automated testing

[ferndot]

It would be good to have automated testing so that we don't break things unintentionally.

First, what service should we use?

[twiss]

Wish list:

• Run the test suite everywhere Firetext runs
• Both automatically and manually (maybe even included in the Firetext app?)
• Emulate actions in designMode, such as pressing enter (http://stackoverflow.com/a/10520017?)
• Reftests (okay, maybe now I'm asking too much.)

[Ryuno-Ki]

I learned Jasmine first, but had problems when it comes to persistent storage (NodeJS file API).

Mozilla use ChaiJS together with Mocha.

So I'd say it comes down to what you want to test.

[ferndot]

I have seen Travis CI used for running tests.

I am not too familiar with testing, but I would think that we want to test any interaction that the user can make with the app. Also, we want to extensively test the parsers.

[Ryuno-Ki]

Travis is Continuos Integration service, that is, it runs the test for you every time you push to GitHub (if configured to do so).

Parsers could be tested through unit tests with the tools I mentioned.
The other thing is called end-to-end (or integration) testing. I have some experience in unit testing.

What I like is code coverage, since they report about how much is tested. You know the pareto law ;-)