Running QUnit tests with Jenkins and Apache Ant?

Question

Is it possible to execute my QUnit (javascript) unit tests from Jenkins? My build script is Apache Ant. Would Jenkins execute this as a separate Build Step, or would I need

Answer 1

Qunit itself now maintains a phantomjs runner:

https://github.com/jquery/qunit/tree/master/addons/phantomjs

So assuming you've already installed phantomjs, grab runner.js from the link above (or get it using bower/whatever js package manager), put it somewhere jenkins can find it, and then use:

phantomjs path/to/runner.js path/to/your/qunit_tests.html

It gives minimal output like this:

$ phantomjs superlists/static/tests/runner.js accounts/static/tests/tests.html 
Took 29ms to run 11 tests. 11 passed, 0 failed.

Or like this if it fails:

$ phantomjs superlists/static/tests/runner.js accounts/static/tests/tests.html 
Test failed: sinon tests of navigator.id.watch: watch sees current user
    Failed assertion: check user, expected: current user, but was: baz
    at file:///home/harry/superlists/superlists/static/tests/qunit.js:556
    at file:///home/harry/superlists/accounts/static/tests/tests.html:69
    at file:///home/harry/superlists/superlists/static/tests/qunit.js:203
    at file:///home/harry/superlists/superlists/static/tests/qunit.js:361
    at process (file:///home/superlists/superlists/static/tests/qunit.js:1453)
    at file:///home/harry/superlists/superlists/static/tests/qunit.js:479
Took 29ms to run 11 tests. 10 passed, 1 failed.

No junit-xml integration, but at least it returns an error code if it fails, so it'll fail the build in jenkins...

$ echo $?
1