TestSwarm - Distributed Continuous Integration for JavaScript

TestSwarm provides distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript.

The main instance monitoring jQuery core and related projects runs at swarm.jquery.org.

Quick start

Clone the repo, git clone git://github.com/jquery/testswarm.git, or download the latest release.

Versioning

TestSwarm uses the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible.

Releases will be numbered in the following format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

The -alpha suffix is used to indicate unreleased versions in development.

For more information on SemVer, please visit http://semver.org/.

Bug tracker

Found a bug? Please report it using our issue tracker!

Installation

To run TestSwarm you will need a web server, a database server and PHP. At the moment TestSwarm only supports Apache and MySQL.

Requirements

• Apache 2.0+
• PHP 5.2.3+
• MySQL 4.0+
• curl (for the cleanup action; see below)

Install

1. Create a mysql database and a user who can connect and write to it.

2. Initialize the database: mysql DBNAME -u USER -p < config/testswarm.sql

3. Copy ./config/testswarm-sample.ini to ./testswarm.ini and change the options to correspond to your MySQL database information.

4. Copy ./config/.htaccess-sample to ./.htaccess. If needed change the RewriteBase to match the contextpath configuration set in the testswarm.ini

5. Currently the only supported webserver is Apache (which uses a .htaccess file).
   To run testswarm from a non-root directory of Apache, modify the contextpath option in the testswarm.ini to fit for your needs, e.g. contextpath = "/testswarm/".
   Test if /testswarm/login loads. If it doesn't, make sure your .htaccess is actually being read (e.g. by putting some jibberish into the .htaccess file, which should result in a HTTP 500 error). If it doesn't get loaded, make sure AllowOverride is set to "All" (at least not to "None") in your Apache configuration.

6. Make sure [storage][cacheDir] is set to an existing writable directory that is not readable from the web. Either set it to a custom path outside the web root in testswarm.ini, or use the default 'cache' directory protected with .htaccess and chmod 777 cache.

7. Copy ./config/robots.txt to ./robots.txt (or add similar rules to your main robots.txt file if TestSwarm is not in the root directory).

8. Create an entry to your crontab for action=cleanup. This performs various cleaning duties such as making timed-out runs available again for testing. * * * * * curl -s http://example.org/api.php?action=cleanup > /dev/null

Get involved

You're welcome to use the GitHub issue tracker to start discussions.

Or post to the QUnit and Testing forum.

Most of us are also on IRC in the #jquery-dev channel at irc.freenode.net

Planning for TestSwarm and other projects related to testing of javascript applications based around jQuery happens on the jQuery Testing Team wiki

Documentation

• TestSwarm wiki
• Submit jobs README
• more wiki pages

Copyright and license

See MIT-LICENSE.

History

TestSwarm was originally created by John Resig as a basic tool to support unit testing of the jQuery JavaScript library. It was later moved to become an official Mozilla Labs and has since moved again to become a jQuery project.