Effective DevOps with AWS

Creating a functional test using mocha

In order to illustrate the process of writing tests for our TDD approach, we will use a tool called Mocha (https://mochajs.org/), a very common and easy-to-use JavaScript test framework, and create a test.

We will install it locally on our system using the following npm, the node.js package, manager.command:

We will first initialize npm with the following command:

$ npm init --yes

This will create a new file called package.json. Next, we will install mocha and add it to our list of development dependencies as follows:

$ npm install mocha@2.5.3 --save-dev

This will create a directory called node_modules and install Mocha in it.

In addition to Mocha, we will use a headless browser-testing module to render ...