I spend a lot of time working in javascript of late. I have not found a way that seems to work well for testing javascript. This in the past hasn't been a problem for me since most of the websites I worked on had very little javascript in them. I now have a new website that makes extensive use of jQuery I would like to build unit tests for most of the system.

My problems are this.

• Most of the functions make changes to the DOM in some way.
• Most of the functions request data from the web server as well and require a session on the service to get results back.

I would like to run the test from either a command line or a test running harness rather then in a browser.

Any help or articles I should be reading would be helpful.