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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

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