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Firing mouse events in tests

Posted: Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 Tags: Javascript, JsUnit, Unit Testing, Web development

The Bad News
Sending mouse events such as click and mouseover in JsUnit tests can be really hard.
More Bad News
Prototype doesn’t make it any easier. Sam Stephenson says:

We would very much like to support it in the future. It’s fairly complicated to implement native event firing across all supported browsers, so in 1.6.0, fire works [...]

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I'm a software developer and consultant in San Francisco. I mostly develop web apps in Javascript, Java and Rails. There's a little more about me on my LinkedIn profile.

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