best testing framework?

[Ro Rao]

hey all, i have a node app with backbone on the front end. i'm looking
for a relatively straightforward testing framework a la cucumber that i
can implement on both the backend and front end. any suggestions?

thanks!
R

[greelgorke]

http://toolbox.no.de/packages/cucumber

mocha

chai

vows

more here http://toolbox.no.de/categories/Testing%20%2F%20Spec%20Frameworks

[Nuno Job]

We are going to have a nodeup episode about testing next sunday.

I don't predict people talking about "the best" of anything though.

I made specify: https://github.com/dscape/specify

Nuno

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[Dominic Tarr]

write your own test framework!
that teaches you every thing about error handling!

[Nuno Job]

Where is yours Domenic? Couldn't find it first pass on github

Curious to see something using domains out in the wild and relate it
to what I did in specify.

Nuno

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Dominic Tarr <domini...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thing about error handling!

[Alan Gutierrez]

I created Proof...

https://github.com/bigeasy/proof

It is nice to have your own test framework. You spend so much time and attention
on testing, you're going to be plauged with insights as to how testing should be
done. Creating my own test framework helps me to be my own programmer.

--
Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy

[Dominic Tarr]

nuno,

https://github.com/dominictarr/macgyver
https://github.com/dominictarr/it-is
https://github.com/dominictarr/assertions
https://github.com/dominictarr/synct
https://github.com/dominictarr/asynct
https://github.com/dominictarr/meta-test

... to many, but I learnt a lot.
now I mostly just use straight scripts that error if the test fails.

with an assertion lib if I feel that it is warranted.

macgyver, it-is, and assertions are really assertions libs, and not
test frameworks.

meta-test was part of an an ambitious project to wrap every test
framework and thus grab the data out of any test run... but evenually
I realized that the only thing general enough to work with everything
is to just grab stdio and exit codes.

[Matt]

I just wish everyone agreed on TAP output (I see "proof" does). We should really be thinking about a future where we have the equivalent of Perl's CPAN Testers, and a common output format is vital for something like that.

Perl's CPAN Testers take the whole of CPAN (the equivalent of the NPM archive) and run tests on different platforms and different versions of Perl, including development versions of Perl, and provide authors with handy reports to fix their issues. They also provide the core Perl developers with info if a development version of Perl breaks something that is commonly used on the CPAN. There's a huge culture of testing in the Perl world that can be learned from here.

Matt.

[Marak Squires]

Vows should have a TAP reporter.

[Dominic Tarr]

matt, Marak:

If you see a job that needs doing, it's your job.

[Matt]

Sometimes it's just worth raising awareness of something. If I had time to go and fix every test framework to output TAP I would.

[Fernando Trasvina]

this one is not part of the buzz but try https://github.com/azendal/tellurium

Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy’s first Law of Equivalent Exchange. ~ Alphonse Elric, Full Metal Alchemist

[Nuno Job]

Just a heads up we will be talking about testing live today at 12PM Pacific @NodeUp.

Nuno