Running unit tests with QUnit

QUnit is the official test suite for jQuery and is included in the source that we cloned from Git earlier in the project. If we take a look in the test folder inside the jquery folder, we should find that there are a lot of unit tests written to test the different components that make jQuery.

We can run these tests against the individual components of jQuery in order to look at the environment that QUnit needs, and to see how easy testing JavaScript files using it can be. For this task we'll need to install a web server and PHP.

Note

For more information on QUnit, see the documentation at http://qunitjs.com.

Prepare for Lift Off

Mac developers should already have everything required in order to run QUnit through a web server, because Mac computers come with Apache and PHP already installed. Windows developers will probably have some setup to do however.

There are two options for the web server in this case, Apache or IIS. Both support PHP. Those developers wishing...