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

Environmental compatibility

To run TestSwarm you will need a web server, a database server and PHP. At the moment TestSwarm supports the following, but other configurations may work as well.

• Apache 2.0+, NGINX 1.2+
• PHP 5.3.0+ (or PHP-FPM for NGINX)
• MySQL 4.0+
• cURL (for the cleanup action; see step 7)

Steps

1. Set up a MySQL database and create a user with read and write access.

2. Copy config/testswarm-sample.json to config/testswarm.json and update the database settings. For other settings, check the wiki.

3. For Apache:
   Copy config/.htaccess-sample to .htaccess.
   Currently the only supported webserver is Apache (which uses a .htaccess file).
   To run TestSwarm from a non-root directory, set web.contextpath to the correct path from the web root and update RewriteBase in .htaccess. Verify that .htaccess is working properly by opening a page (e.g. /testswarm/projects) in your browser. If it doesn't work, 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, verify that AllowOverride is set to "All" (at least not to "None") in your Apache configuration.
   
   For NGINX:
   Copy config/nginx-sample.conf to /etc/nginx/sites-available.
   The file name should match your domain e.g. for swarm.example.org:
   cp config/nginx-sample.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/swarm.example.org.conf
   Open this conf file in your editor and fill in the correct values for YOURURL, and make sure your install is located at /var/www/testswarm (otherwise update the file to match your install location).
   Now you need to link the sites-available config to the sites-enabled config:
   (replace the "swarm.example.org" with your own file name):
   ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/swarm.example.org.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/swarm.example.org.conf
   Now make sure that php-fpm is running: /etc/init.d/php-fpm status
   if is not running start it: /etc/init.d/php-fpm start

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

5. Set storage.cacheDir to a writable directory that is not readable from the web. Either set it to a custom path outside the web document root, or use the default cache directory (protected with .htaccess).
   Chmod it: chmod 777 cache.

6. Install the TestSwarm database by running: php scripts/dbInstall.php

7. Create an entry in your crontab for action=cleanup. This performs various cleaning duties such as making timed-out runs available again.
   * * * * * curl -s http://swarm.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.