Nodejs TDD Test Starter

Why Testing is Important

• Brings Quality
• Assurance
• Enables continuous delivery

Types of tests

• Unit: Test specific aspect of your code
• Integration: Test components to work as they should
• Functional: Test final product

Lets consider the following API example to do integration and unit tests.

Test-Driven-Development (TDD)

Developing software while basing on tests. Development is based on tests.

Behaviour-Driven-Design (BDD)

Which in fact is based on TDD, but test driven by behaviour, specification, they are just better described.

API Structure

npm run start
http://localhost:3000/api
http://localhost:3000/api/teams
http://localhost:3000/api/drivers
http://localhost:3000/api/races

Run Integration Tests

npm run test:integration

Run Unit Tests

npm run test:unit

Don't forget to install mocha globally

npm install -g mocha  // install mocha globally
npm test

By default, Mocha looks for the glob ./test/*.js. - http://mochajs.org/#the-test-directory

References

https://blog.codeship.com/testing-http-apis-supertest/

https://dev.to/areknawo/introduction-to-unit-testing-in-js-2bmk