Share a standard Reporter interface?

[JamesMGreene]

We on the QUnit team have been discussing the possibility of working with other JS test frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jasmine, Intern, etc.) to agree upon a standard Reporter interface so that we could hopefully share Reporter plugins between testing frameworks.

This would most likely come in the form of an EventEmitter interface with an agreed upon minimum viable set of standardly-named events and associated standard set of data/details provided to each.

Would you guys be interested in discussing this further with us?

Cross-reference issues:

• Standard reporter interface qunitjs/qunit#531 (original discussion)
• Share a standard Reporter interface? jasmine/jasmine#659
• Share a standard Reporter interface? theintern/intern#257

cc: @jzaefferer @Krinkle @leobalter

[jbnicolai]

👍 very much so. I'll catch up with the discussion thus far this weekend, and add my views. Great initiative!

[rosssclafani-zz]

i f*cking love open source.

[boneskull]

@JamesMGreene This is brilliant.

My only concern is losing functionality. If framework passes data x to its reporters, how can we ensure that x will appear in the universal reporter?

I'm curious where the framework would end and the reporter would begin. Would the framework interface with some sort of common adapter, or the reporters themselves?

Please create a new repo and/or org for this initiative so we can centralize the discussion?

Excited about this!

[JamesMGreene]

Please create a new repo and/or org for this initiative so we can centralize the discussion?

Will do.

[JamesMGreene]

Anyone from "Team Mocha" who wants to join in on this discussion, please let me know. For now, I've added @visionmedia, @boneskull, @jbnicolai.

https://github.com/js-reporters/js-reporters

[JamesMGreene]

Discussions: https://github.com/js-reporters/js-reporters/issues/

[boneskull]

@JamesMGreene please add @travisjeffery
@visionmedia is no longer maintaining the repo

thanks!

[JamesMGreene]

TJ can still be an honorary member if he likes. 😜

Added @travisjeffery.

[boneskull]

closing as discussion has moved to js-reporters

[JamesMGreene]

👍

[dinukadesilva]

Hi,

I would like contributing to https://github.com/js-reporters/js-reporters in anyway I can. Can anyone help me, from where I can start?
Since I'm more familiar with Jasmin and mocha also, I thought of contributing to this.

I have already built the repository and fairly gone through the code base.

[jzaefferer]

@Dinuka2013513 there's several open issues that you could help with: https://github.com/js-reporters/js-reporters/issues

You could also help finish the mocha adapter: qunitjs/js-reporters#28