higher level js api

[tj]

would allow people to bypass mocha(1) if they wish, see #136 and a few others

[uipoet]

I have a jQuery plugin that runs its unit tests against each supported version of jQuery in a loop. I would love to replace my home-grown testrunner with mocha. Any idea how big the scope of enabling an API is? Hacking _mocha to import each version of jQuery is proving difficult. I'm sure require('mocha') with supported functions would work much better for my case.

[tj]

wouldnt you want to run that the browser anyway

[uipoet]

I'm running a subset of the unit tests in jsdom continuously during development. Then manually running the full suite in browsers before a release.

[tj]

ah I see. well can't you just have require('jquery1.0') require('jquery1.1') that sort of thing?

[tj]

then maybe setup the makefile like:

test: test-1.0 test-2.0

test-1.0:
  $(MAKE) JQUERY_VERSION=1.0 test-unit

test-2.0:
  $(MAKE) JQUERY_VERSION=2.0 test-unit

test-unit:
  ./node_modules/.bin/mocha ... stuff here

[tj]

^ gives you the benefit of concurrency as well make test -j4 etc

[uipoet]

Interesting. I'll give this a shot since I need a makefile's easy access to my scripts anyway. Thanks!

Mind you, this is part of a larger build system that does things like JSHint for syntax, compile Stylus and minify the source before running the tests. That's why having the whole thing written inside a Node.js module, using an API provided by mocha makes the most sense to me.

[tj]

sure, but at least until there is a js api

[uipoet]

Agreed, and P.S. - I <3 the flexibility of this test framework. It's the least opinionated one by far.