The types for the QUnit TestContext
provided by the ember-qunit
and @ember/test-helpers
types on DefinitelyTyped made a choice to prioritize convenience over robustness when it came to what methods and values were available on this
in any given test: they made all methods availabe regardless of what your setup actually involved.
If your tests rely on properties of this
that aren't actually available in all test contexts, like this.render
or this.element
, those tests will now produce type errors.
For example, with the 6.1 native types, this test would produce a type error on the line where this.element
is referenced:
import { module, test } from 'qunit';
import { setupRenderingTest } from 'ember-qunit';
import { hbs } from 'ember-cli-htmlbars';
module('<Greeting />', function (hooks) {
setupRenderingTest(hooks);
test('greets', async function (assert) {
await render(hbs`<Greeting />`);
assert.equal(this.element.textContent?.trim(), 'Hello!');
});
});
To resolve this, you can explicitly specify what this
is for different kinds of tests:
import { module, test } from 'qunit';
import { setupRenderingTest } from 'ember-qunit';
import { hbs } from 'ember-cli-htmlbars';
import type { RenderingTestContext } from '@ember/test-helpers';
module('<Greeting />', function (hooks) {
setupRenderingTest(hooks);
test('greets', async function (this: RenderingTestContext, assert) {
await render(hbs`<Greeting />`);
assert.equal(this.element.textContent?.trim(), 'Hello!');
});
});
In many cases this should not be necessary, though. For instance, if the test above were written using qunit-dom
instead, no this
annotation would be needed:
import { module, test } from 'qunit';
import { setupRenderingTest } from 'ember-qunit';
import { hbs } from 'ember-cli-htmlbars';
module('<Greeting />', function (hooks) {
setupRenderingTest(hooks);
test('greets', async function (assert) {
await render(hbs`<Greeting />`);
assert.dom().hasText('Hello!');
});
});
While annoying, the tighter default type for this
in tests is accurate and prevents TypeScript from presenting invalid options while authoring tests. Combined with support for using local scope with <template>
(see [Ember RFC 0785][rfc-0785]), available since v2.8 of @ember/test-helpers
, the need to specify the this
will go away entirely over time.
ember-qunit
had a few major changes that affects apps when migrating from v4.x to v5:
- Require the application to have a
qunit
and@ember/test-helpers
dependency of some sort - Require the QUnit and
@ember/test-helpers
DOM fixtures to be added to the applicationstests/index.html
- Require the application to have
ember-auto-import
- Dropped support for usage of
ember-test-helpers
imports - Dropped support for
moduleFor*
APIs - Drop support for older Node versions (8, 9, 11, 13)
- Remove re-exports of QUnit functions from
ember-qunit
- Drop support for usage with Ember older than 3.8
Older versions of ember-qunit
directly depended on qunit
and
@ember/test-helpers
. In v5, this relationship was changed and now
ember-qunit
has qunit
and @ember/test-helpers
(v2) as peer dependencies.
In order to accomodate this change, in your application, you can run:
# npm users
npm install --save-dev qunit "@ember/test-helpers"
# yarn users
yarn add --dev qunit "@ember/test-helpers"
In v5 ember-qunit
moved from automatically providing the testing DOM fixtures to requiring that
the host application provide them itself.
In order to accomodate this change in your application add the following
snippet to your tests/index.html
just after your {{content-for "test-body"}}
entry:
<div id="qunit"></div>
<div id="qunit-fixture">
<div id="ember-testing-container">
<div id="ember-testing"></div>
</div>
</div>
If you use QUnit DOM, you may encounter the error message assert.dom is not a function
when you run tests.
To address this issue, import and run QUnit DOM's setup
function in your test-helper.js
file:
// tests/test-helper.js
import * as QUnit from 'qunit';
import { setup } from 'qunit-dom';
//...
setup(QUnit.assert);
setApplication(Application.create(config.APP));
start();
//...
Note: Only make this change when you've updated your version of ember-qunit
to a 5.x.x
version. Doing so pre-emptively will result in errors trying to import setup
.
For a long time @ember/test-helpers
re-exported all of its modules under the ember-test-helpers
namespace,
in v5 of ember-qunit
(which requires @ember/[email protected]
) those re-exports are removed.
For the most part, you can migrate any ember-test-helpers
imports to @ember/test-helpers
.
This section provides instruction for upgrading your test suite from the Legacy APIs to Ember's latest testing APIs based on RFCs 232 and 268.
For the complete introduction to the new testing APIs, please read the latest Ember Guides. The following examples will give you an overview how to migrate your existing Ember QUnit based test suite.
Before:
import { test, moduleFor } from 'ember-qunit';
moduleFor('controller:sidebar', 'SidebarController', {
// Specify the other units that are required for this test.
// needs: ['controller:foo']
});
// Replace this with your real tests.
test('exists', function(assert) {
let controller = this.subject();
assert.ok(controller);
});
After:
import { module, test } from 'qunit';
import { setupTest } from 'ember-qunit';
module('SidebarController', function(hooks) {
setupTest(hooks);
// Replace this with your real tests.
test('exists', function(assert) {
let controller = this.owner.lookup('controller:sidebar');
assert.ok(controller);
});
});
- Use
module
andtest
imported fromqunit
directly - Use
setupTest()
instead ofmoduleFor()
- Use the Owner object given by
this.owner
directly instead ofthis.subject()
You can use the ember-qunit-codemod to update your test code automatically.
Before:
import { test, moduleForComponent } from 'ember-qunit';
import { hbs } from 'ember-cli-htmlbars';
moduleForComponent('GravatarImageComponent', {
integration: true
});
test('it renders', function(assert) {
this.render(hbs`{{gravatar-image}}`);
assert.equal(this.$('img').length, 1);
});
After:
import { module, test } from 'qunit';
import { setupRenderingTest } from 'ember-qunit';
import { render } from '@ember/test-helpers';
import { hbs } from 'ember-cli-htmlbars';
module('GravatarImageComponent', function(hooks) {
setupRenderingTest(hooks);
test('renders', async function(assert) {
await render(hbs`{{gravatar-image}}`);
assert.ok(this.element.querySelector('img'));
});
});
- Use
module
andtest
imported fromqunit
directly - Use
setupRenderingTest()
instead ofmoduleForComponent()
- Render using the
render()
helper from@ember/test-helpers
instead ofthis.render()
render()
is now always an async call, so useasync
/await
to wait for it to complete- Use
this.element
to get access to the rendered DOM - Do not use jQuery for DOM interaction, instead use the
DOM Interaction Helpers
from
@ember/test-helpers
You can use the ember-qunit-codemod to update your test setup code automatically.
For migrating to the DOM interaction helpers, you can use the ember-test-helpers-codemod to automatically convert all or most of it.
Before:
import { test } from 'qunit';
import moduleForAcceptance from 'app/tests/helpers/module-for-acceptance';
moduleForAcceptance('basic acceptance test');
test('can visit /', function() {
visit('/');
andThen(() => {
assert.equal(currentURL(), '/');
});
});
After:
import { module, test } from 'qunit';
import { setupApplicationTest } from 'ember-qunit';
import { visit, currentURL } from '@ember/test-helpers';
module('basic acceptance test', function(hooks) {
setupApplicationTest(hooks);
test('can visit /', async function(assert) {
await visit('/');
assert.equal(currentURL(), '/');
});
});
- Use
module
andtest
imported fromqunit
directly - Use
setupApplicationTest()
instead ofmoduleForAcceptance()
orbeforeEach
/afterEach
hooks for setting up the application - Use the Routing Helpers
from
@ember/test-helpers
instead of the global helpers, e.g.visit
- Do not use the "global" test helpers for DOM interaction, instead use the
DOM Interaction Helpers
from
@ember/test-helpers
- use
async
/await
to wait for asynchronous operations likevisit()
orclick()
- use
this.element
to get access to the rendered DOM
You can use the ember-qunit-codemod to update your test setup code automatically.
For migrating from the global test helpers to those proved by
@ember/test-helpers
, you can use the
ember-test-helpers-codemod
to assist you with that task.
- As of [email protected] / [email protected],
Ember.testing
is only set tortrue
during the test run. Previously it was always set totrue
. For more information see https://github.com/ember-cli/eslint-plugin-ember/tree/master/docs/rules/no-ember-testing-in-module-scope.md