Weird mocha behavior

[timsim00]

Very strange behavior observed with mocha. The order of the test files makes a difference. The issue is around function-soapRequest. I tried putting a new test in there after the 'describe' test but it always resulted in "Error: connect ECONNRESET" in the midst of reporting a test. Also, reporting indicated that certain tests were ran twice. Very strange stuff.

Prefixing a file with _ causes the file to be processed first. This worked for node 0.8x but caused it fail on 0.10x, or vice versa, I don't remember. Some of this may have been my mac. I ended up getting both 0.8 and 0.10 tests to work on another machine. But I had to call it "header-test" so it ran after the other tests.

[dougwilson]

I can help if you can show a commit where running the tests results in Error: connect ECONNRESET.

[vernak2539]

Also, reporting indicated that certain tests were ran twice

I've experience that also, and it can be seen in a Fuel-REST PR. (the subsequent failures are because that first one failed). The test is actually checking to see if a call is made twice, but it ends up being called 4 times, so that's wrong. I think it has to do with using a mocha version that doesn't support v0.8. Will likely look into that soon.

The order of the test files makes a difference.

This is interesting. Test order shouldn't matter, but seems weird that it does.

[dougwilson]

I think it has to do with using a mocha version that doesn't support v0.8.

The latest version of mocha still supports Node.js 0.8 (it doesn't support 0.6 or lower, through).

[vernak2539]

Hmm, then I have no clue why it would run them twice. Looks like I'll need to dig into it more

[vernak2539]

not a problem anymore it seems as tests run on 0.8 consistently