Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Structuring our test files

Next, we are going to write our unit tests, but where should we put them? There are generally two approaches:

• Placing all tests for the application in a top-level test/ directory
• Placing the unit tests for a module of code next to the module itself, and using a generic test directory only for application-level integration tests (for example, testing integration with external resources such as databases)

The second approach (as shown in the following example) is better as it keeps each module truly separated in the filesystem:

$ tree.├── src│   └── feature│       ├── index.js│       └── index.unit.test.js└── test    ├── db.integration.test.js    └── app.integration.test.js

Furthermore, we're going to use the .test.js extension to ...