I Can't Test Fab.js

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Up tonight, I would like to start working through testing my (fab) game. So far, I have not done any, and feel like I'm pushing my luck with keeping this together. I know that Cucumber now runs (at least as a proof of concept) under the v8 javascript engine. Before I go there, I would like to be able to at least run the fab.js test suite. Or at lest one test.

Way back, a reader provided a clue as to how to run a single test. This is a good thing because none of the built-in test like scripts seem to do anything:

cstrom@whitefall:~/repos/fab$ node utils/test.js
<no output>
cstrom@whitefall:~/repos/fab$ node utils/build.js 
<no output>
cstrom@whitefall:~/repos/fab$ node builds/all.js 
<no output>

What's worse is that the "core" test fails completely:

cstrom@whitefall:~/repos/fab$ node builds/core.js 
Error: Cannot find module '/home/cstrom/repos/fab/apps/fab.Function'
    at loadModule (node.js:492:15)
    at require (node.js:618:12)
    at /home/cstrom/repos/fab/utils/build.js:10:15
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at /home/cstrom/repos/fab/utils/build.js:6:8
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/cstrom/repos/fab/builds/core.js:12:41)
    at Module._compile (node.js:639:23)
    at node.js:667:20
    at fs:52:23
    at node.js:748:9

Bah!

I can get that "working", in the sense that it does not crash, by adding a "defaults" object namespace to some of the apps in core.js:

var apps = exports.apps = [
  "fab"
  , "fab.body"
  , "fab.defaults"
  , "fab.defaults.Function"
  , "fab.identity"
  , "fab.defaults.Number"
  , "fab.path"
  , "fab.defaults.RegExp"
  , "fab.status"
];

exports.app = require( "../utils/build" )( apps ).app;

But that does me little good as running that file with node now returns right away without any output as well.

Let's see if I can get a single test to run. Thanks to the comment from istruble, I know that I can create a my_test.js file in the root directory of the fab.js source with contents like:

var test = require("./utils/test"),
    target_module = require('./apps/fab.status');
test(target_module);

And indeed that does work:

cstrom@whitefall:~/repos/fab$ node my_test.js
Running 3 tests...
statusReturnsUnaryApp: true
statusRespondsWithCorrectPayload: true
statusClosesConnection: true
Done. 3 passed, 0 failed.

I fiddle with that for a bit longer to see if I can get it to load in more tests automatically, but the overall approach feels very manual. I am forced to call it a night at this point. I think tomorrow I will move on to try Cucumber.

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