Tag: testing

  • End to end testing – Cypress basics

    When you’ve made a change to your web-app, do you run it then click around the new bits to check it works? Good start, but instead of doing that yourself, do it in a faster, more comprehensive and automated way with an end-to-end (E2E) testing setup using Cypress. Here’s how. E2E End to End testing…

  • Node.js built in test runner

    For the longest time, I’ve been using Mocha (test runner) and Chai (assertion library) for my JS testing. They are reliable old friends. One of the effects of the existence of Bun and Deno has been to spur Node onto adding some new features, so after appearing as an experimental feature in 18, the Node…

  • Testing Node.js apps – Mocha, Chai, and Supertest

    Bruno is a great open source Postman/Insomnia replacement, and I’ve been using it for basic tests of my node servers using the built in asserts and loving it. This is pretty great, and I gather it’s also possible to go beyond this and write tests in JS in Bruno. I believe it also has the…

  • Bruno asserts

    I mentioned Bruno the other day. Although it’s still very much under development, it is shaping up as a great Postman/Insomnia replacement. One of the aspects I’ve been using today is asserts. As part of a request, you can add some asserts – so when you’re hitting an endpoint it will check what status should…

  • Testing, testing

    I have unit testing in my list of goals, and if I’m going to throw this space trimming macOS utility up on the web, now might be a good time to figure out how to add unit tests to a project, how to write them, and how to run them. XCode is well set up…