Custom Clients

Writing custom clients for testickle are really easy, they just have to do 1-2 things depending on the type of test

Unit Test

For a unit test client, testickle requires nothing as long as the client can self assert failure.

So if a test fails just written an non zero exit code. (process.exit(1))

For a browser test client, we do require a few things to work properly.

testickle detects the test result for browser tests by listening for results on localhost:8080/log.

The test cannot exit unless you send a POST to the same url.

The request handler also expects the data to be in the shape of

type BrowserTestGroupReturn = {
  passed: number;
  failed: number;
  total: number;
  errors: string[];
  testName: string;
};

For a E2E test, testickle will eval your javascript code.

So there are a few things required

You have to go to whatever website you are testing by setting window.location
You have to return your results, the expected shape is the same as BrowserTestGroupReturn above