self-executable tests

[azu]

Is there any chance I could run the test as node scripts like tape?

Currenly, node examples/simple-fail.js not throw error.

For example, It may help to

• create testing framework for testing framework
  • Meybe, it is related with js-reporters
• debug test because it is just a node script
• improve portability

[kt3k]

@azu
Thanks for the feedback!

You can do execute the kocha test cases by yourself by running the following code after all test suites/cases are registered.

const getRunner = require('kocha').getRunner
let failed = false
const runner = getRunner()
const Reporter = require('kocha/src/reporters/spec')
new Reporter(runner)
runner.on('fail', () => { failed = true })
runner.on('end', () => process.exit(failed))
runner.run()

I added examples for these use cases in examples dir. 96021a3

The run script example:self-exec-fail shows how to use power-assert in that case.

I haven't heard of js-reporters. It seems like a decent approach to separating test runners from the reporters! 👍

[azu]

Thanks!

[kt3k]

For the moment, getRunner is not a part of public api and could be broken at some time. If you build something on top of kocha, please let me know ;) I hope we can collaborate.