Martin, Sidedoor seems like an elegant solution. I will give this a try.
Thanks, Jeff On Sunday, 6 May 2012 10:27:51 UTC-5, Martin Cooper wrote: > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM, P. Douglas Reeder wrote: > > Writing functional tests for the functions exposed by a module is > > straightforward, using any of the many TDD framework for Node. > > > > However, it's not clear what the best approach is, to writing unit > > tests for functions that are not exposed by a module. > > > > One possibility is to write unit tests as part of the module and > > expose one or more test methods. However, it's not clear how unit > > tests could then be excluded from a production module. > > > > What is the usual approach? is it possible to write a test submodule > > and cleanly exclude it from a production module? > > This is exactly why I wrote Sidedoor: > > https://github.com/mfncooper/sidedoor > > It lets you expose secondary APIs from your module that don't pollute > the regular 'exports' API. > > Your tests know that they need to access the functions exposed via the > "side door", so they use the Sidedoor API to get at those functions. > Your main module can choose to always expose the secondary API (safe > in the knowledge that someone looking at 'exports' won't see it), or > choose to conditionally expose it, if you want it to just not be there > outside of tests. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > > -- > > 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 > -- 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
