Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

In order to run all test functions in a test page, JsUnit naturally needs to know what those test functions are. It’s able to get a list of those functions from Firefox, Safari and Opera, but it’s not able to get them from Internet Explorer.

So in IE, JsUnit has to resort to searching the text of all scripts for strings that look like test function names. Unfortunately, it doesn’t understand comments so commented-out test functions will end up running anyway.

Recently, Dean McNamee and Dan Pupius alerted Edward Hieatt and me to an undocumented Internet Explorer Javascript function called RuntimeObject and suggested JsUnit might be able to use it to discover test functions.

I replaced the text searching with RuntimeObject and tagged it as version 2.2 alpha 25. (I also added an assertEqualsIgnoringOrder function while I was making changes.)

Browse the new version at SourceForge or check it out like this:

Try it out and let us know if there are any problems.