palemoon-dev/platform/devtools/shared/gcli/source/docs/writing-tests.md

Writing Tests

There are several sources of GCLI tests and several environments in which they are run.

The majority of GCLI tests are stored in this repository in files named like ./lib/gclitest/test*.js. These tests run in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and NodeJS/JsDom

See Running Tests for further details.

GCLI comes with a generic unit test harness (in ./lib/test/) and a set of helpers for creating GCLI tests (in ./lib/gclitest/helpers.js).

GCLI tests in Firefox

The build process converts the GCLI tests to run under Mochitest inside the Firefox unit tests. It also adds some