to my mind unit testing is no meant for js within a single page but rather for js files providing methods to use for the page, so if you have any methods within a page you should exclude them to a external js file. In that case you should be able to unit test your js. For your other questions there is no standard answer for that, everyone has his or her own style. As far as I can tell the “normal” procedure is that unit tests include all the code needed for the test to succed, it is almost the same as a java unit test, even there one will provide the data needed.

what if the javascript i want to unit test is inside a server page like jsp.
what is the standar practice to do? do i put the unit test inside that jsp or in another jsp?
if it’s in another jsp, how to access the dom objects of the target jsp from the unit test jsp?

this is the first time i came across the idea of unit testing a javascript. so i’m kind of confused about the deployment and mechanism.

Thanks and Best Regards,
abu3ammar.

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