On Aug 25, 2013, at 15:50, Daniel Rosales wrote:
> An earlier post by Artur on 12/24/12 he posted a question to this group about
> "describe is not defined". He did not provide the details about "how" he
> solved his problem. I am on a windows 7 home premium machine. At the
> command-promt I install mocha globally just like the instructions on the web
> page at section 1.2.3. I create the same test...When I type mocha, I get the
> 0 passed message. When I debug with the command of node .load test1.js I get
> the error message about "describe is not defined"
> --
> C:\MochaTests>node
> > .load test1.js
> > var assert = require("assert")
> undefined
> > describe ('Array', function() {
> ... describe('#indexOf()', function() {
> ..... it('should return -1 when the value is not present',
> function() {
> ....... assert.equal(-1, [1,2,3].indexOf(5));
> ....... assert.equal(-1, [1,2,3].indexOf(0));
> ....... })
> ..... })
> ... })
> ReferenceError: describe is not defined
> at repl:1:2
> at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:110:21)
> at Interface.<anonymous> (repl.js:239:12)
> at Interface.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
> at Interface._onLine (readline.js:202:10)
> at Interface._line (readline.js:531:8)
> at Interface._ttyWrite (readline.js:814:20)
> at Interface.write (readline.js:294:24)
> at repl.js:853:24
> at Array.forEach (native)
My understanding is that to run the tests with mocha, you must run "mocha",
because mocha creates the "describe" function, among others. You cannot run the
tests by running "node".
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