Build Your Own Test Framework: A Practical Guide to Writing Better Automated Tests

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D. IrvineBuild Your Own Test Frameworkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9247-1_7

7. Automatically Discovering Test Files

Daniel Irvine¹  

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London, UK

 

Up to this point, our tests have had to exist within the test/tests.mjs file. This is not ideal. Surely we want the ability to place our test suites wherever we want.

In this chapter you’ll learn

• Typical testing workflows during local development

• How to run multiple test suites sequentially

• How to run just a single, specific file by including the file path in the launch command

Let’s begin with a look at some common usage patterns when running test runners locally.

Development Workflows and Test Runners

We know that ...