Simplify QAing the js popup windows in your web app
QAing js popup windows in your web app is a pain in the ass. It’s easy to miss windows in obscure corners of your UI and can be hard to recreate the circumstances under which they’re shown, and the various states that determine how and when they appear. Automated js tests with a library like Qunit or Jasmine, while great, don’t really help when you need to make sure things look a certain way.
Fortunately, if you make a couple assumptions that I think hold true for a majority of web apps, we can simplify this testing process substantially.