Participate in discussion about a shared Reporter interface?

[JamesMGreene]

We on the QUnit team have been discussing the possibility of working with other JS test frameworks, especially those that can be run client-side (e.g. Mocha, Jasmine, Intern, Buster, etc.), to agree upon a common Reporter interface so that we could hopefully share Reporter plugins between testing frameworks.

This would most likely come in the form of:

• a common Reporter API/Interface, e.g.
  • an EventEmitter interface (.on(...)/.off(...)) OR an object with standard "hook" properties
  • maybe a standard-ish way to register a Reporter, e.g. MyLib.addReporter(x), MyLib.reporter = x;, etc.
• a minimum viable set of standardly-named events
  • an associated standard set of data/details provided for each event
• a minimum viable set of standard test status types (e.g. pass, fail, skip, todo, pending, etc.)
• updating all participating test frameworks to support this new common Reporter interface

As a likely consumer of such a shared Reporter interface, we suspect you may be interested in participating in the discussions as well. Such a reporter should eliminate the need for any framework-specific shims/plugins/etc. that you may be employing right now to standardize results.

Would you guys be interested in discussing this further with us? If so, please let me know who I should invite to participate.

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

Cross-reference issues:

• Standard reporter interface qunitjs/qunit#531 (original discussion)
• Share a standard Reporter interface? mochajs/mocha#1326
• Share a standard Reporter interface? jasmine/jasmine#659
• Share a standard Reporter interface? theintern/intern#257
• Share a standard Reporter interface? busterjs/buster#419
• Share a common Reporter interface? caolan/nodeunit#276
• Share a common Reporter interface? vowsjs/vows#313

[dignifiedquire]

@JamesMGreene sorry for the very late response, this looks really cool, I will try my best to take part :)

[Krinkle]

@dignifiedquire @johnjbarton The spec is taking shape, I've invited both of you to the org and chat room. Let me know if I should invite anyone else!

[johnjbarton]

I left a comment on qunitjs/js-reporters#98