Jest + React README

This example demonstrates how to use axe to test React components using the
Jest unit testing framework.

The unit test is in link.test.js, and has one test cases, showing how to run
axe-core in Jest (using JSDOM and Enzyme).

To configure the example

• Node must be installed; please follow the directions at http://www.nodejs.org to install it.
• Move to the doc/examples/jest_react directory
• npm install to install dependencies

To run the example

• Move to the doc/examples/jest_react directory
• npm test to run Jasmine

You should see output indicating that the tests ran successfully, with zero
failures.

Note: to work better with JSDOM (which has limited support for necessary DOM APIs),
the color-contrast and link-in-text-block rules have been disabled in this example.
You can test for these rules more reliably using full browser DOM integration
testing using axe-webdriverjs.

To modify the example

This example can be modified to test components in other test frameworks as well. To use axe-core with JSDOM (Like Jest does), you will need to ensure that JSDOM variables are made available on the global object. An easy way to do this is to use jsdom-global.

For example, when running Mocha, you should require jsdom-global/register. The command for this is as follows:

mocha *.test.js --require jsdom-global/register

Timeout Issues

Axe-core is very fast for what it does, but when testing larger components, it may take a few seconds to complete. This is because axe will be running thousands of tests in a single call. When testing composite components, you may have to increase the timeout setting.