jstest

Windows Script Host

Although the approach described in Server-side testing works on most CommonJS platforms, it won’t work on Windows Script Host. For that, you need a new runner script.

This assumes you’ve gone through the Getting started and Loading you scripts tutorials to write a simple spec and a runner.js file that loads your code and tests and runs them. You can reuse that script, since JS.load() works just fine on WSH, but before jstest is loaded we need a different way to load files.

Add the following code to example/wsh.js:

// example/wsh.js

if (this.ActiveXObject) load = function(path) {
  var fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject'), file, runner
  try {
    file   = fso.OpenTextFile(path)
    runner = function() { eval(file.ReadAll()) }
    runner()
  } finally {
    try { if (file) file.Close() } catch (e) {}
  }
}

load('build/jstest.js')
load('example/runner.js')

Because of the way JS.load() loads files on WSH, you’ll also need to explicitly make the variables exported by lib/set.js into globals. Add this to the end of the file:

// example/lib/set.js

if (typeof WScript !== 'undefined')
  this.Set = Set

After doing this your tests should run on WSH:

$ cscript.exe example/wsh.js

Loaded Suite: Set

..

Finished in 0.198 seconds
2 tests, 2 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors