find-test-names

find-test-names

Given a Mocha / Cypress spec file, returns the list of suite and test names

Install

# install using NPM, probably as a dev dependency
$ npm i -D find-test-names
# install using Yarn
$ yarn add -D find-test-names

Use

const { getTestNames } = require('find-test-names')
const result = getTestNames(specSourceCode)
// { "suiteNames": [], "testNames": [], "tests": [] }

The tests is a list with each test and suite name, and optional list of tags.

// spec.js
it('works', {tags: ['@user']}, () => { ... })
// found test names
// { tests: [{ name: 'works', tags: ['@user'] }] }

withStructure

You can get the entire structure of suites and tests by passing true argument

const result = getTestNames(specSourceCode, true)
// use the result.structure array

To view this in action, use npm run demo-structure which points at bin/find-tests.js

Pending tests

The tests it.skip are extracted and have the property pending: true

Bin

This package includes bin/find-test-names.js that you can use from the command line

$ npx find-test-names <path to the spec file>
# prints the describe and test names found in the spec file

print-tests

Print found suites an tests

$ npx print-tests <spec pattern>

For example, in this repo

$ npx print-tests 'test-cy/**/*.js'

test-cy/spec-a.js
└─ Suite A
  ├─ works 1
  └─ works 2

test-cy/spec-b.js
└─ Suite B
  ├─ works 1
  └─ works 2

Pending tests and suites are marked with ⊙ character like this:

├─ first
├⊙ second
└⊙ last

Debugging

Run with the environment variable DEBUG=find-test-names to see verbose logs

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov <[e-mail]> © 2021

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Gleb Bahmutov <[e-mail]>

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