Things have changed in Express 3 because the express server no longer inherits from the node http server. Fortunately, app.listen returns the server instance. var server = app.listen(3000); // listen for an event var handler = function() { server.close(); };
You can use sinon to stub isAuthenticated method, but you should do that before a reference to auth.isAuthenticated is set as a middleware, so before you require the index.js and app is created. Most likely you would want this in a beforeEach hook: var app; var auth; beforeEach(function() { auth = require(‘../wherever/auth/auth.service’); sinon.stub(auth, ‘isAuthenticated’) .callsFake(function(req, … Read more
The stub supports all the methods of a spy. Just don’t create the spy.
I think you miss importing env file. require(‘dotenv’).config({ path: ‘ENV_FILENAME’ });
As of Mocha 1.0: coffee-script is no longer supported out of the box. CS and similar transpilers may be used by mapping the file extensions (for use with –watch) and the module name. For example –compilers coffee:coffee-script with CoffeeScript 1.6- or –compilers coffee:coffee-script/register with CoffeeScript 1.7+. (Quoting http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/#compilers-option) So, you need to add the line … Read more
You can call assert.fail: it(“should return empty set of tags”, function() { assert.fail(“actual”, “expected”, “Error message”); }); Also, Mocha considers the test has failed if you call the done() function with a parameter. For example: it(“should return empty set of tags”, function(done) { done(new Error(“Some error message here”)); }); Though the first one looks clearer … Read more
I prefer mocha-sinon over “plain” sinon because it integrates nicely with Mocha. Example: var expect = require(‘chai’).expect; require(‘mocha-sinon’); // Function to test, can also be in another file and as long as it’s // being called through some public interface it should be testable. // If it’s not in any way exposed/exported, testing will be … Read more
I found out that Sinon.JS has support for manipulating the JavaScript clock, via sinon.useFakeTimers, as described in its Fake Timers documentation. This is perfect since I already use Sinon for mocking purposes, and I guess it makes sense that Mocha itself doesn’t support this as it’s more in the domain of a mocking library. Here’s … Read more
Edit, years later: the shortest path in Node 6+ is: mocha –debug-brk –inspect ./test.js coupled with the Node Inspector Manager plugin. Many weeks later, no answers. Here’s the quickest path that I found. write mocha tests install node-inspector start node-inspector — it will now be listening on 5858 start the mocha test with –debug-brk at … Read more
You can use SinonJS to create a stub to prevent the real function to be executed. For example, given class A: import B from ‘./b’; class A { someFunction(){ var dependency = new B(); return dependency.doSomething(); } } export default A; And class B: class B { doSomething(){ return ‘real’; } } export default B; … Read more