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Mofo Testing Notes

General approach for functional testing:

Do programmatic user interactions via headless browser and analyze the resulting DOM mutations.

PhantomJS

Gotcha: Phantom 2 downloaded from official site doesn't work on Yosemite. Get a working binary here.
mocha-phantomjs looks promising but isn't on 2 yet.
Looks like Travis needs Phantom 2.
Phantom doesn't play nice with node, but there are some bridges between them:

CasperJS

A navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS. So far I've been able to get some very basic functional tests, but doing things like clicking buttons doesn't seem to work.

SlimerJS

Appears to not work on OSX Yosemite...

ZombieJS

Pomax commented Mar 6, 2015

LESS

node 0.12 is only compatible with gulp-less ^3.0.1, so projects that Travis-build against node v10 will break locally with v12

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