The AJAX Back-Channel

How can we check if our client networking code actually works? One way is to ask the test server who’s connected. That requires some sophisticated back-channel communication in our test harness, but it seems like a technique worth exploring. We expand our harness.client.isConnected() method to use AJAX to talk to our test server.

  1. E386Hang Ten

    Wed, 17 Feb ’16
  2. E387A Question of Test Quality

    Mon, 22 Feb ’16
  3. E388The AJAX Back-Channel

    Wed, 24 Feb ’16
  4. E389Connection Query

    Mon, 29 Feb ’16
  5. E390Show Some ID

    Wed, 2 Mar ’16
  6. E391Racing to Disconnect

    Mon, 7 Mar ’16
  7. E392This Kills the Browser

    Wed, 9 Mar ’16
  8. E393Pointing the Way

    Mon, 14 Mar ’16
  9. E394An Eventful Race

    Wed, 16 Mar ’16