Node QUnit Puppeteer Plugin

A simple node module for running qunit tests with headless Chromium.

There is a common issue with PhantomJS failing with ES6 code, and the logical solution is to use Chrome Puppeteer instead.

Development

Make sure you have installed Node.js v22 or later and pnpm v10 or later.

Install dependencies

pnpm install

Run tests

pnpm test

Run linter

pnpm lint

Usage

Command-line utility

npm install -g node-qunit-puppeteer
node-qunit-puppeteer <URL> [<timeout>] [<puppeteerArgs>]

• <URL> — the address (or filepath) of the qunit HTML test page.
• <timeout> — (optional) test run timeout in milliseconds. Default is 30000.
• <puppeteerArgs> — (optional) Chrome command-line arguments. Default is "--allow-file-access-from-files".

Examples

node-qunit-puppeteer https://example.org/ 10000 "--allow-file-access-from-files --no-sandbox" node-qunit-puppeteer ./test/test-runner.html 10000 "--allow-file-access-from-files --no-sandbox"

Node module

• npm: npm install node-qunit-puppeteer --save-dev
• yarn: yarn add node-qunit-puppeteer --dev
• pnpm: pnpm add node-qunit-puppeteer --save-dev

Exported functions

• async function runQunitPuppeteer(qunitPuppeteerArgs) — opens the specified HTML page in a Chromium puppeteer and captures results of a test run. Returns an object with information on every module/test run.
• function printOutput(qunitResult, console) — takes the output of runQunitPuppeteer and prints it to console with indentation and colors.
• function printResultSummary(qunitResult, console) — takes the output of runQunitPuppeteer and prints a summary to console with indentation and colors.
• function printFailedTests(qunitResult, console) — takes the output of runQunitPuppeteer and prints failed test(s) information to console with indentation and colors.
• async function runQunitWithBrowser(browser, qunitPuppeteerArgs) — runs the specified HTML page in the puppeteer.Browser instance. You might want to use this if you need to use a different puppeteer version or if you need to apply some additional logic on top of it.
• async function runQunitWithPage(page, qunitPuppeteerArgs) — runs the specified HTML page in the puppeteer.Page instance. Just like the previous function, you may want to use it if you need to use a different puppeteer version.

Examples

const path = require("path");
const { runQunitPuppeteer, printOutput } = require("node-qunit-puppeteer");

const qunitArgs = {
  // Path to qunit tests suite
  targetUrl: `file://${path.join(__dirname, "tests.html")}`,
  // (optional, 30000 by default) global timeout for the tests suite
  timeout: 10000,
  // (optional, false by default) should the browser console be redirected or not
  redirectConsole: true,
  // (optional, ['--allow-file-access-from-files'] by default) Chrome command-line arguments
  puppeteerArgs: ["--allow-file-access-from-files"]
};

runQunitPuppeteer(qunitArgs)
  .then(result => {
    // Print the test result to the output
    printOutput(result, console);
    if (result.stats.failed > 0) {
      // Handle the failed test run
    }
  })
  .catch(ex => {
    console.error(ex);
  });

const path = require("path");
const {
  runQunitPuppeteer,
  printResultSummary,
  printFailedTests
} = require("node-qunit-puppeteer");

const qunitArgs = {
  // Path to qunit tests suite
  targetUrl: `file://${path.join(__dirname, "tests.html")}`,
  // (optional, 30000 by default) global timeout for the tests suite
  timeout: 10000,
  // (optional, false by default) should the browser console be redirected or not
  redirectConsole: true
};

runQunitPuppeteer(qunitArgs)
  .then(result => {
    printResultSummary(result, console);

    if (result.stats.failed > 0) {
      printFailedTests(result, console);
      // other action(s) on failed tests
    }
  })
  .catch(ex => {
    console.error(ex);
  });

Output

result object

{
  "modules": {
    "module 1": {
      "name": "module 1",
      "tests": [
        {
          "name": "module 1 simple test 1",
          "testId": "49b931ed",
          "skip": false,
          "module": "module 1",
          "previousFailure": false,
          "log": [
            {
              "module": "module 1",
              "name": "module 1 simple test 1",
              "result": true,
              "message": "Passed 1!",
              "actual": true,
              "testId": "49b931ed",
              "negative": false,
              "runtime": 1,
              "todo": false,
              "expected": true
            },
            {
              "module": "module 1",
              "name": "module 1 simple test 1",
              "result": true,
              "message": "Passed 2!",
              "actual": true,
              "testId": "49b931ed",
              "negative": false,
              "runtime": 2,
              "todo": false,
              "expected": true
            }
          ],
          "skipped": false,
          "todo": false,
          "failed": 0,
          "passed": 2,
          "total": 2,
          "runtime": 3,
          "assertions": [
            {
              "result": true,
              "message": "Passed 1!"
            },
            {
              "result": true,
              "message": "Passed 2!"
            }
          ],
          "source": "    at file:///Users/..../test-runner.html:17:11"
        }
      ],
      "failed": 0,
      "passed": 2,
      "runtime": 3,
      "total": 2
    },
    "module 2": {
      "name": "module 2",
      "tests": [
        {
          "name": "module 2 simple test 2",
          "testId": "9f962b0e",
          "skip": false,
          "module": "module 2",
          "previousFailure": false,
          "log": [
            {
              "module": "module 2",
              "name": "module 2 simple test 2",
              "result": true,
              "message": "Passed 1!",
              "actual": true,
              "testId": "9f962b0e",
              "negative": false,
              "runtime": 0,
              "todo": false,
              "expected": true
            }
          ],
          "skipped": false,
          "todo": false,
          "failed": 0,
          "passed": 1,
          "total": 1,
          "runtime": 0,
          "assertions": [
            {
              "result": true,
              "message": "Passed 1!"
            }
          ],
          "source": "    at file:///Users/..../test-runner.html:23:11"
        },
        {
          "name": "module 2 failed test 1",
          "testId": "aae8e622",
          "skip": false,
          "module": "module 2",
          "previousFailure": false,
          "log": [
            {
              "module": "module 2",
              "name": "module 2 failed test 1",
              "result": false,
              "message": "Passed 1!",
              "actual": false,
              "testId": "aae8e622",
              "negative": false,
              "runtime": 0,
              "todo": false,
              "expected": true,
              "source": "    at Object.<anonymous> (file:///Users/..../test-runner.html:28:14)"
            }
          ],
          "skipped": false,
          "todo": false,
          "failed": 1,
          "passed": 0,
          "total": 1,
          "runtime": 1,
          "assertions": [
            {
              "result": false,
              "message": "Passed 1!"
            }
          ],
          "source": "    at file:///Users/..../test-runner.html:27:11"
        }
      ],
      "failed": 1,
      "passed": 1,
      "runtime": 2,
      "total": 2
    }
  },
  "totalTests": 3,
  "stats": {
    "passed": 3,
    "failed": 1,
    "total": 4,
    "runtime": 35
  }
}