node.js and mocha-qunit-ui: test with asynchronous requirejs dependencies

Question

node.js and mocha-qunit-ui: test with asynchronous requirejs dependencies

Short description first: The test in the following snipped is never executed:

setTimeout(function() {
    test("test", function() {
        ok(true, "okay");
    })
}, 1000);

Is there any way not to autostart the mocha-qunit-ui but wait for some asynchronous callbacks to create tests?

So, why would I need it this way?

I'm trying to run in-browser-tests for my classes with nodejs and the mocha-qunit-ui. The classes are loaded asynchrously by requirejs.

So I could create a test like this:

test("test", function() {
    stop();
    requirejs(
        ['Dependency'],
        function(Dependency)
        {
            expect(1);
            var d = new Dependency();
            ok(d.test(), "test");
            start();
        }
    );
 }

But I want to run multiple tests on the same class with the same dependencies, so I thought of creating a test object

var d = new Dependency();

outside of the test. But then the test would be inside an asynchronous call, and therefore is never called.

javascript
node.js
asynchronous
mocha
qunit

Answer 1

Well, I'm not terribly familiar with mocha-qunit-ui plugin specifically, but QUnit has a config object that you can use to tell it not to run until you are ready (so you can load all of your classes, etc first):

<script src="path/to/qunit.js"></script>
<script>
QUnit.config.autostart = false; // be sure this is set BEFORE you add your actual tests
require(
    [ "whatever", "your", "dependencies", "are" ],
    function() {
        QUnit.start(); // tell QUnit you're ready to go
    }
);
<script>