On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 9:01:49 PM UTC+1, Adam Boxall wrote:
>
> HI
>
> I'm writing unit tests for the validation of a registration form. Most of
> the fields are quite straight-forward, but I'm a little unsure about
> *invalid* usernames. I need to restrict the value to 4-32 characters of
> a-z, 0-9, "." and "_". Testing *valid *data is quite straight-forward,
> it's the huge number of *invalid* possibilities that has me stumped.
>
> If possible I want to avoid a large and very manual list of test data; the
> ideal would be for a module to generate that list for me according to
> certain specifications. Unfortunately I can't seem to find such a module.
>
> Why do other people do in these situations?
>
I do something like if (!/^[a-z0-9._]{4,32}$/.test(username)) throw new
Error("username is not valid)
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