Building APIs with Node.js

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9. Testing the Application: Part 2

Caio Ribeiro Pereira¹ 

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Continuing the test implementation, now focus next on writing some tests for the resources: tasks and users.

Testing a Task’s Endpoints

To test the endpoints of a task’s resource, we are going to cheat the JWT authentication . After all, it will be necessary to correctly test the results of this resource and also the other resources that involves user authentication. To start, let’s create the structure for the tasks test.

Create the file test/routes/tasks.js with the following code.

 1   import jwt from "jwt-simple"; 2    3   describe("Routes: Tasks", ...