mocha-decaf

Run mocha tests in dry-run mode, it's like mocha but without caffeine

Install

Using npm

$ npm i mocha-decaf

Alternatively using yarn

$ yarn add mocha-decaf

Usage

• You can use mocha-decaf to run your tests the same way you use mocha

  $ mocha-decaf --recursive

  For a complete list of command line arguments and options check Mocha's Documentation

• You can also run and list the tests programmatically

  const { isJSFile, listFiles, listExecutedTests, runMocha } = require('mocha-decaf')
  // list the js files under the test directory
  const testFiles = listFiles('./test').filter(isJSFile)
  // run the tests with the base mocha reporter
  const runner = runMocha(testFiles, { reporter: 'base' })
  // list the tests executed
  const tests = listExecutedTests(runner)
  console.log(tests.join('\n'))

  For a complete list of the available functions check the API documentation

• The above code is exported with the following command

  $ mocha-list ./test

How is this package useful ?

• You can use this package to list all the tests that should be run without actually running them to show what your tests are covering to stakeholders

• You can also do all sorts of stuff before you actually run your tests using mocha like partitioning the tests to run them in batches on different machines in parallel, checkout Mocha's test filters

Notes

• This package is only useful till mocha implements this functionality, however it doesn't seem this is going to happen in the near future since a PR was submitted 6 years ago and rejected.

How it works

The command simply patches Mocha's test runner to pass any test then calls mocha to run all tests.

Starting from v0.2.0 it also patches before, beforeEach, after and afterEach

Caveats

• Some mocha arguments won't behave identically when used with mocha-decaf most notably --forbid-only because it should make the tests marked as .only fail however all tests will pass.

License

MIT