Unit testing of private functions with Mocha and Node.js

Check out the rewire module. It allows you to get (and manipulate) private variables and functions within a module.

So in your case the usage would be something like:

var rewire = require('rewire'),
    foobar = rewire('./foobar'); // Bring your module in with rewire

describe("private_foobar1", function() {

    // Use the special '__get__' accessor to get your private function.
    var private_foobar1 = foobar.__get__('private_foobar1');

    it("should do stuff", function(done) {
        var stuff = private_foobar1(filter);
        should(stuff).be.ok;
        should(stuff).....