Jasmine-Core 3.0 Release Notes

Summary

Jasmine 3.0 is a major release of Jasmine, and as such includes some breaking changes in addition to various new features.

There is also a 2.99 release of Jasmine that will present deprecation warnings for suites that will encounter different behavior in 3.0.

Breaking Changes

• Replace old "catch exceptions" logic with proper fail fast with error reporting

  • Fixes #414
  • Fixes jasmine/jasmine-npm#16

• Detect an Error passed to done and add an expectation failure

  • Fixes #567

• Unify status for xdescribe and xit

  • Ensure *All's only execute if at least one child will run
  • Specs will report a status of excluded instead of disabled
  • Fixes #1418

• Suite level errors all report the same way (on suiteDone)

• Refactor QueueRunner and remove references to functions that Jasmine is done with

• expect(null).toEqual(jasmine.any(Object)) no longer passes

  • Fixes #1255

• Default to running tests in random order

• The identity of a Jasmnine Spy is now a property and no longer a method

• Additionally, Jasmine 3.0 drops support for older browsers and environments. Notably:

  • Internet Explorer 8 and 9
  • Ruby 1.x (for the Ruby gem)
  • Rails 3.x (for the Ruby gem)
  • Python 2.x (for the Python wheel)
  • Nodejs 0.x (for the NPM package)

Changes

• Remove node modules from python wheel, and update languages

• Allow reporter callbacks to be asynchronous

  • Fixes #842

• Allow adding custom spy strategies

• Add the ability to specify the strategy to use for a spy based on which parameters are passed

• Added links to re-run the suites containing a failing spec

• Added a toHaveClass matcher

• More informative pretty-printing of DOM elements

• Allow jasmine-npm to handle its own load errors

• Treat random= as a no-op rather than disabling randomization

• Use prototype for spy strategy for better memory management

• Remove console.js altogether

• Add safari 10 and update readme to include edge

• Determine overall status in core, not reporters

• Filter Jasmine frames from stack traces

• Treat afterAll errors at any level as failures

• Improved reporting of load errors and afterAll errors

  • Pass file and line number to reporters when present
  • Show file and line number in the HTML reporter when present
  • Visually separate adjacent errors in the HTML reporter

• Report loading errors as loading errors, not afterAll errors

• HTML reporter reports overall failure if there are any global errors

• Fail if error events (e.g. syntax errors) occur during loading

• Allow use of a predicate function to validate thrown exceptions

• Check truthiness of toThrowError args, not arg count

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