Finally I choose vows + tobi + should.js for testing. I've put together a short post about how I made my choice: http://dev.estisia.com/2012/02/unit-testing-node-js-applications/
On febr. 17, 09:29, Bika <[email protected]> wrote: > ok, thanks to your links, I've managed to start writing my tests with > Mocha and have nice errors all around my code :) > > but a new problem arised: how to wait for the database connection > before my tests start running? > > I'm using backbone-mongodb[1] that's built on top of the native mongo > driver > > I would like to purge my collection: > > beforeEach(function(done){ > mainapp.statusapp.Users._withCollection(function(err, collection){ > if(err) done(err); > collection.remove({}, done); > }) > > }); > > and this is called in my main app code > > var db = new Db({ > name: 'test', > host: '127.0.0.1', > port: 27017}); > > db.on('database', function(status){ > var error = status == 'open' ? null : status; > if (error) throw 'Could not connect to database'; > else { > statusapp.Users.fetch({ > error: function(err) { > throw 'Could not fetch users'; > }, > success: function(results) { > console.log('Initial fetch success'); > } > }); > } > > }) > > unfortunately putting all my tests inside a db.on call did not work, > as the callback would have been called by the time the mocha quit > > [1]:https://github.com/ToolPartTeam/backbone-mongodb > > On febr. 17, 04:43, tjholowaychuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >http://www.devthought.com/2011/12/22/a-string-is-not-an-error/ > > > On Feb 16, 10:58 am, fent <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Take a look at zombie.js http://zombie.labnotes.org/ -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
