Whiskey is a powerful test runner for NodeJS applications.

• Each test file runs isolated in a separate process
• Support for running multiple tests in parallel in a single suite (--concurrency option)
• Support for running multiple suites in parallel (--independent-tests option)
• Support for a test initialization function which is run before running the tests in a test file
• Support for a test file timeout
• setUp / tearDown function support
• Support for different test reporters (cli, tap)
• Support for code coverage (cli reporter, html reporter)
• Support for reporting variables which have leaked into a global scope
• Nicely formatted reports (colors!)
• Integration with node debugger
• Support for generating Makefiles with different Whiskey targets

• node-jscoverage (only required if --coverage option is used)

For changes please see CHANGES.md file.

Install it using npm:

npm install whiskey

whiskey [options] --tests "<test files>"

whiskey [options] --independent-tests "<test files>"

whiskey [options] --tests "<test files>"  --independent-tests "<test files>"

• -t, --tests - Whitespace separated list of test suites to run sequentially
• -T, --independent-tests - Whitespace separated list of test suites to run concurrently
• -ti, --test-init-file - A path to the initialization file which must export init function and it is called in a child process *before running the tests in each test file
• -c, --chdir - An optional path to which the child process will chdir to before running the tests
• --timeout [NUMBER] - How long to wait for tests to complete before timing out
• --failfast - Stop running the tests on a first failure or a timeout
• --no-styles - Don't use styles and colors
• --concurrency [NUMBER] - Maximum number of tests which will run in parallel (defaults to 1)
• --quiet - Don't print stdout and stderr
• --real-time - Print stdout and stderr as soon as it comes in
• --test-reporter [cli,tap] - Which test reporter to use (defaults to cli)
• --coverage - Use this option to enable the test coverage
• --coverage-reporter [cli,html] - Which coverage reporter to use (defaults to cli)
• --coverage-dir - Directory where the coverage HTML report is saved
• --scope-leaks - Record which variables were leaked into a global scope
• --scope-leaks-reporter [cli] - Which scope leak reporter to use (defaults to cli)
• --debug - Attach a Node debugger to the test process
• --report-timing - Report each test run time
• --dependencies STRING - Specify path to the dependencies file for the process runner. More information about the process runner can be found at PROCESS_RUNNER.md
• --only-essential-dependencies - Only start dependencies required by the tests files which are ran. This option is only applicable if --dependencies option is used.

Note: When specifying multiple test a list with the test paths must be quoted, for example: whiskey --tests "tests/a.js tests/b.js tests/c.js"

A simple example (success):

var called = 0;

exports['test_async_one_equals_one'] = function(test, assert) {
  setTimeout(function() {
    assert.equal(1, 1);
    called++;
    test.finish();
  }, 1000);
}

exports['tearDown'] = function(test, assert) {
  assert.equal(called, 1);
  test.finish();
}

A simple example (skipping a test):

var dbUp = false;
exports['test_query'] = function(test, assert) {
  if (!dbUp) {
    test.skip('Database is not up, skipping...');
    return;
  }

  assert.equal(2, 1);
  test.finish();
}

A simple example (failure):

exports['test_two_equals_one'] = function(test, assert) {
  assert.equal(2, 1);
  test.finish();
}

A simple example using the optional BDD module:

var bdd = require('whiskey').bdd.init(exports);
var describe = bdd.describe;

describe('the bdd module', function(it) {
  it('supports it(), expect(), and toEqual()', function(expect) {
    expect(true).toEqual(true);
  });
});

For more examples please check the example/ folder, and the test/run.sh script.

To run the Whiskey test suite, run the following command in the repository root directory.

npm test

If all the tests have sucessfully passed, the process should exit with a zero status code and you should see * * * Whiskey test suite PASSED. * * * message.

To contribute, fork the repository, create a branch with your changes and open a pull request.

If you want to debug your test, you can use the --debug option. This will cause Whiskey to start the test process with the V8 debugger attached to it and put you into the Node debugger prompt.

Whiskey will also by default set a breakpoint at the beginning of your test file.

Note: This option can only be used with a single test file. Further, you cannot use the --debug and --independent-tests options together. The semantics just don't make any sense. To debug a test, make sure you invoke it with --tests instead.

Long stack traces modules intercepts the default Error object and throws a custom one. The problem with this is that Whiskey internally relies on attaching the test name to the Error object so it can figure out to which test the exception belongs. long-stack-traces throws a custom Error object and as a consequence test name attribute gets lost so Whiskey thinks your test didn't throw any exceptions.

The solution for this problem is to disable long-stack-trace module when running the tests. This shouldn't be a big deal, because Whiskey internally already uses long-stack-traces module which means that you will still get long stack traces in the exceptions which were thrown in your tests.

If your test gets reported as "timeout" instead of "failure" your test code most likely looks similar to the one below:

exports["test failure"] = function(test, assert){
  setTimeout(function() {
    throw "blaaaaah";
    test.finish();
  },200);
};

The problem with this is that if you run tests in parallel (--concurrency > 1) and you don't use a custom assert object which gets passed to each test function, Whiskey can't figure out to which test the exception belongs. As a consequence, the test is reported as "timed out" and the exception is reported as "uncaught".

The solution for this problem is to run the tests in sequential mode (drop the --concurrency option).

Apache 2.0, for more info see LICENSE.