Testing the server side code

[jonatanskogsfors]

I'm interested in a way to test the server side code.

I have a more complex project started from this repo and there is essential logic in the server controllers that I really would like to have tests for.

I've experimented some with using mocha but then I get name collisions with jasmine identifiers. I would be nice to have jasmine all the way but I have not gotten that to work (yet).

[zbagley]

Jasmine is already included in this repo, so there's no need to be using mocha. If you're looking to implement mocha, then you'll want to remove jasmine. Go ahead and check out Jasmine vs. Mocha on google to find several good reads on how they are competing test tools.

[jonatanskogsfors]

Yes, I would prefer to only use one framework. My dabbling with mocha was primarily because I couldn't get jasmine to work on both client and server. And that is te actual question: How should I test the server code?

I would love for this project to include examples of this.

[zbagley]

Karma + Jasmine is the framework set up for live BDD/TDD. There's quite a few tutorials out there. In this repo all you need to do is type ng test for a basic Karma/Jasmine test.

[jonatanskogsfors]

ng test is all you have to do for client side testing (ng as in Angular) and it's working perfect out of the box. Server side testing however is only performed secondarily by the e2e-tests.

The server code in this project is maybe not worth testing since most logic in handled by mongoose so to showcase server testing there should probably be more server logic.

There is a jungle of tutorials for jasmine but I have not yet found a good one that works with both typescript and nodejs.

There is the module jasmine-node-karma on npm but then you are restricted to jasmine 1.3.1.

[zbagley]

I'll be working closely with this over the next day or so, and I have a few solid tutorials saved already... but I'll update with the best or what I used. I'm shifting to testing both client and server with Karma + Jasmine.

[zbagley]

Just wanted to mention that our server tests are postponed until next week while we work some bugs out, but I haven't forgot.