-w option, i don't understand, or it's not working like expected

[petershaw]

Hi,
whenever i run mocha ion watch mode, the first run wokes great. All after then will bereportet with 0 tests complete. No tests are executed anymore.

Lets assume i have a test like:

var assert = require("assert")

describe('A Self Test', function(){
  describe('#indexOf()', function(){
    it('should return -1 when the value is not present', function(){
      assert.equal(-1, [1,2,3].indexOf(5));
      assert.equal(-1, [1,2,3].indexOf(0));
    })
  })
});

and run mocha with:

node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha -w test/aselftest.js 

the output after breaking the test is:

  A Self Test
    #indexOf()
      ✓ should return -1 when the value is not present 


  1 test complete (11 ms)

  0 tests complete (0 ms)

-V shows mocha Version 1.9.0

Is it a missunderstanding or something in the code? How can I use -w? How can i test continuously.

Thanks,
Peter Shaw

[tj]

works fine for me:

  1 test complete (0 ms)


  test
․

  1 test complete (1 ms)


  stuff
․

  1 test complete (0 ms)

[petershaw]

Hi TJ,
Thanks for your response.

I updated to 1.10.0 but have the same issues. I uploaded a 1:45min video to demonstrate whats happening here. so maybe you have the time and the nerves to watch it an my bad english pronunciation :-)
I do something wrong, but i can't figure out what... maybe i can fix it, or annotate the docs, can you push me into the right direction?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Ot776uWB8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thanks a lot,
peter.

[benjie]

@petershaw I had this issue recently; it turned out it was because I was using the wrong UI (--ui tdd instead of --ui bdd). Simply changing the line in my mocha.opts to match my code with --ui bdd fixed the issue.

[ladariha]

I have the same problem, I don't have any custom settings. I tried to create mocha.opts and placed there --ui bdd but no change at all

Mocha 2.0.1

[jbnicolai]

Closing in favor of #1780