I would like to log a quick separator to the console in each QUnit test like this:

test( "hello test", function() {
    testTitle = XXX; // get "hello test" here
    console.log("========= " + testTitle + "==============");
    // my test follows here
});

How can I get the title (maybe also called "name") of the test?

I would like to log a quick separator to the console in each QUnit test like this:

test( "hello test", function() {
    testTitle = XXX; // get "hello test" here
    console.log("========= " + testTitle + "==============");
    // my test follows here
});

How can I get the title (maybe also called "name") of the test?

• javascript
• qunit

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• Please make sure to avoid the scenario where you run the tests and then you need to read the logs to know if they passed or not. This bypasses most of the benefits of automated testing! If the logs are just to provide extra information then no problem. – Jonathan Benn Commented Aug 7, 2015 at 15:19

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You can achieve that using the callbacks of QUnit. They are called at several different points during the execution of the tests (e.g. before each test, after each module, ...)

Here is an example from my test suite:

QUnit.begin = function() {
    console.log('####');
};

QUnit.testStart = function(test) {
    var module = test.module ? test.module : '';
    console.log('#' + module + " " + test.name + ": started.");
};

QUnit.testDone = function(test) {
    var module = test.module ? test.module : '';
    console.log('#' + module + " " + test.name + ": done.");
    console.log('####');
};

It put this in a file called helper.js and include it on the test index.html page.

It produces output like this:

####
#kort-Availability Includes: started.
#kort-Availability Includes: done.
#### 
#kort-UrlLib Constructor: started.
#kort-UrlLib Constructor: done.
#### 
#kort-UrlLib getCurrentUrl: started.
#kort-UrlLib getCurrentUrl: done. 
#### 

It's simple to use this solution :

test( "hello test", function(assert) {
  testTitle = assert.test.testName; // get "hello test" here
  console.log("========= " + testTitle + "==============");
  // my test follows here
});

========= hello test==============

You should try Javascript's arguments object (read more here):

test( "hello test", function() {
    testTitle = arguments.callee.caller.arguments[0]; // get "hello test" here
    console.log("========= " + testTitle + "==============");
    // my test follows here
});

EDIT:
I have created a small (and documented) jsFiddle example of how it should work.
Notice that my answer is a pure JavaScript one and is true no only for QUnit.

QUnit.config.current is an Object contains the currently running test. So you can show it, like console.log(QUnit.config.current). There are many paramters of this object(testName, started..) you can change them.

QUnit.test("some test", function() {
  console.log( QUnit.config.current.testName);
});