Setting dates in expected output and input files can become stale due to not being able to set expected dates when tests run.

[newtewt]

@binokaryg found this issue.

Calculating anything based on now ( which is equal to Date.now() in some projects) in contact-summary-extras.js and then using static expected json file will eventually fail. As this is a cli I guess we could pass a parameter in to change the date or maybe get rid of the cli and make it a framework that's imported. Then use it within mocha or maybe there's some other magic in JS that could happen. @abbyad is there a reason we went CLI? I personally think it would be an easy change to set now to whatever the expected date was if we used it more in a framework style.

This would be an issue in standard config for the immunizations contact summary. The contacts birth is set to "2018-01-03" and immunizations checks that DOB in months to be less than 144. Eventually that contact would be over 144 months old.

In CHT config we are comparing lmpDate > now - 294 * MS_IN_DAY to insure that the pregnancy is within 9 months. Once the Date.now() is past that threshold the tests would begin to fail.

[abbyad]

Seems worth making this easier to use, but I am not clear on what you mean by "framework style". Can you propose what you think it should be like, and provide an example?

[newtewt]

You'd use this similar to any other npm package. As in you'd setup a standard mocha test and then require in contact-summary-testing and pass use it within mocha instead of having it loop over a folder structure.

[kennsippell]

As in you'd setup a standard mocha test and then require in contact-summary-testing

Should we merge this into medic-conf-test-harness then? It already has functionality for mocking the expected date in xforms, tasks, and targets code. Sounds like a good fit.

[newtewt]

@kennsippell I think that'd be a good idea. It'd be one less repo to manage and all testing stuff would live in one place. I know @abbyad mentioned we would want to make this more friendly for non programmer style persons.