Document integration tests sendTestMessage and add error checking

The integration test extensions send messages to the system under test
and also to the browser test harness (messages head in both directions
no matter how you depict the test system).

Add commentary to sendTestMessage to state where (or to whom) messages
are sent to. Explain the expected message format, add code to throw if
callers don't use that format (throw breaks browser tests).

Bug: 831074
Cq-Include-Trybots: master.tryserver.chromium.linux:closure_compilation
Change-Id: Ia8085b3ebd28b7b001e7a5bfae4d883cdbd5660e
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1013359Reviewed-by: Tomasz Mikolajewski <mtomasz@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Noel Gordon <noel@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#550932}

ui/file_manager/integration_tests/test_util.js

@@ -5,15 +5,31 @@
 'use strict';
 
 /**
- * Sends a test message.
- * @param {Object} message Message to be sent. It is converted into JSON string
- *     before sending.
- * @return {Promise} Promise to be fulfilled with a returned value.
+ * Sends a message to the controlling test harness, namely and usually, the
+ * chrome FileManagerBrowserTest harness: it expects the message to contain
+ * the 'name' of the command, and any required or optional arguments of the
+ * command, e.g.,
+ *
+ *   sendTestMessage({
+ *     name: 'addEntries', // command with volume and entries arguments
+ *     volume: volume,
+ *     entries: entries
+ *   }).then(...);
+ *
+ * @param {Object} message Message object to be sent. The object is converted
+ *     to a JSON string prior to sending.
+ * @return {Promise} Promise to be fulfilled with the value returned by the
+ *     chrome.test.sendMessage callback.
  */
 function sendTestMessage(message) {
+  if (typeof message.name === 'string') {
     return new Promise(function(fulfill) {
       chrome.test.sendMessage(JSON.stringify(message), fulfill);
     });
+  } else {
+    let error = 'sendTestMessage requires a message.name <string>';
+    throw new Error(error);
+  }
 }
 
 /**