Browser tdd: describe is not defined; bdd is ok

ascani...@gmail.com

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Jun 9, 2016, 9:21:56 AM6/9/16

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Weird situation: set up yeoman with backbone generator

yo backbone

with mocha.setup("bdd") the tests run

with mocha.setup("tdd") getting ReferenceError: describe is not defined.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Mocha Spec Runner</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../bower_components/mocha/mocha.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="mocha"></div>
<script src="../bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="../bower_components/underscore/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="../bower_components/backbone/backbone.js"></script>
<script src="../bower_components/mocha/mocha.js"></script>
<script>mocha.setup('tdd');// works with "bdd"</script>

<script src="../bower_components/chai/chai.js"></script>
<script>
    var assert = chai.assert;
    var expect = chai.expect;
    var should = chai.should();
</script>




<script src="spec/test.js"></script>
<script>
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('PhantomJS') === -1) {
      mocha.run();
    }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Vlad GURDIGA

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Jun 10, 2016, 4:02:21 AM6/10/16

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Hi Ascani! 8-)

Ha! It seems like Mocha has a different set of methods for the TDD interface. Check what the docs say:

The TDD interface provides suite(), test(), suiteSetup(), suiteTeardown(), setup(), and teardown():

suite('Array', function() {
  setup(function() {
    // ...
  });


  suite('#indexOf()', function() {
    test('should return -1 when not present', function() {
      assert.equal(-1, [1,2,3].indexOf(4));
    });
  });
});

8-)

ascani...@gmail.com

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Jun 10, 2016, 4:06:41 AM6/10/16

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On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 4:02:21 PM UTC+8, Vlad GURDIGA wrote:

Hi Ascani! 8-)

Ha! It seems like Mocha has a different set of methods for the TDD interface. Check what the docs say:

Yes - thank you - that helps me understand the issue, TDD exports different globals

The yeoman scaffold (yo backbone) confused me because when you choose TDD it still uses describe in index.html. :-(

Vlad GURDIGA

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Jun 10, 2016, 4:08:09 AM6/10/16

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No problem! I’m glad it worked out! 8-)

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