Are you intrested in a new test runner?

[wvanderp]

Hello,

Are you interested in a replacement for the phantomjs test runner? I can change it over to karma.

A long story long: I found a bug that I still need to report. But I thought I could also try to fix it myself and make a pull request. During my quest in TTD, I tried to run the test and found it underwhelming.

So, I started working on a replacement, and karma is a good fit here. It can also use phantomjs but also can use chrome and firefox. It also produces test coverage, uses mocha and chai, and is easy to debug.

I made a proof of concept which will run most of the tests, and for 20 or so tests, I need to see what is wrong.

I just wanted to know if you are interested in this change before I put more time into it. And if you have any wishes for the test runner, just let me know.

[jfirebaugh]

Hi @wvanderp, this sounds quite promising to me! As you may be aware, we have a long standing issue to replace PhantomJS: #7697. Karma does seem like the most viable replacement. I assume we would use Headless Chromium with Puppeteer as the default test browser.

[jfirebaugh]

Switched to Karma in #8764. Thanks @wvanderp!