I started with mocha + chai + SinonJS (Sinon is similar to Ruby's mocha - mocks, spies and stubs, and some limited timecop-style time manipulation capabilities), and if you're doing typical web app development, those three make for a pretty broad and powerful sweet spot. However, if you're working with stuff that touches the bare runtime (i.e. you're manipulating eventEmitters or writing your own error-handling framework), mocha has a number of behaviors that make it less than ideal. I've been switching my tests over to use Isaac's node-tap, and if you want something even simpler, there's substack's tape.
For some of the stuff I do, even that's got too much stuff going on to work with the (very low-level) tests I've been writing, so I've been writing a few, important test cases using bare JavaScript and the built-in assert module. I mention it here because it's really not that bad; with just a little work you can write your own tests to produce TAP-compatible output, and then use it with a test runner like the one included with node-tap. To get back to your original questions, because the most common format in JavaScript for fixtures is just straight-up JSON, which is very easy to programmatically generate from inside JavaScript, I haven't seen anything like factorygirl get traction in the Node world. For a replacement for capybara, I've seen people using various webdriver modules, cheerio, or zombie, it seems like something like PhantomJS or CasperJS is the best bet long-term. F On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:33 PM, P. Douglas Reeder <[email protected]>wrote: > I looked over what was available a couple months ago, and Mocha+Chai has > everything I wanted (and everything team members are likely to want, > also). > > I prefer to drive Selenium directly, without Capybara in the way (I've > used it, and encountered problems which I couldn't rule out as being > Capybara's fault -- though we were using an old version). > > > On Sunday, January 12, 2014 1:46:33 PM UTC-5, Scott wrote: >> >> In ruby/rails my test suite was test.unit/minitest, rspec, factory girl, >> and capybara. >> >> For node, I have found mocha and chai that look promising. Is there >> anything like factory girl and capybara that works on node/express? Is >> there any other software i should check out? >> >> Thanks, >> Scott >> >> -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
