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I am new to OpenUI5/QUnit testing. Sorry for the newbie question.

I have added a very basic async QUnit test into my OpenUI5 project:

How can I assert, in a QUnit test case, that a specific Backbone event was observed?

The application uses Backbone.js events (Backbone.js version 1.3.3) for communicating between components. A simple view responds to a button click, by triggering a custom event on the event bus:

When running qUnit tests in the browser you can run a specific test by clicking on the "Rerun" button.

This will result in a hash identifier for that test to be added as a value to the testId url param and only that test will be run. The only API function is another way of accomplishing this.

But, often times I want to run a couple tests, say, tests 5 through 8.

Is there a way to run a sub-set of tests on a page...or at least a way of referencing these tests with an index, rather than a hash?

I am trying to run unit tests on my web app using QUnit and I need a way to setup the databases test data before the unit tests are run. Manually entering and erasing test data from the Database for each test is a painfully slow and repetitive.

I coded some temporary request handlers on the server-side which handle the 'BEFORE' requests shown in the code below.

The problem is that modifying the database takes to long, so the QUnit tests start running before the database test data has had a chance to be updated.

The best reference I could find is https://api.qunitjs.com/QUnit.module/ (at the bottom of the page). It shows that a database connection can be opened and closed in the 'before' and 'after' functions using promises. However, the example is too brief and doesn't provide enough information to do what I am trying to do.

I have thought of nesting my JQuery requests, so that the test code is only executed after receiving the servers response (after updating the database). However, this makes the test code hard to read, repetitive and it ignores the use of the 'before' and 'after' hooks provided by QUnit.

Any suggestions?

Below is the test code I currently have for setting up the database for the unit tests.