How do you run the Intern's self tests with SauceConnect?

Question

I am having a challenge running the self tests for the Intern.

I have modified the configuration of intern/tests/selftest.intern to point at my local host and I am running the following command line:

node runner config=intern/tests/selftest.intern

I connect to SauceLabs and the tests start, but all of them fail after about 120 seconds. Looking at the output, once the tests are bootstrapped, I see that the initial pages load, but it attempts to fetch the following URL:

http://[myhost]:9000/intern-selftest/tests/all.js

To which a 404 is returned.

Answer 1

When running the self tests, there are two points to keep in mind:

1. There should theoretically be two copies of Intern when self testing: one that is being tested, and one that is "known" to be good, used to actually do the testing. The idea is that we are testing a new version of Intern with a known good version of itself.

2. The copy of Intern that is being tested should be named intern-selftest. Check out what happens on TravisCI when the self tests run, specifically noting two separate clones of Intern and the mv intern intern-selftest on line 40.