mocha + webstorm - error message broken

Question

I try to use mocha with webstorm test runner on win 7.

I have these config params:

• path to node:

  C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\no         
  
  
          

Answer 1

While the greater powers are debating on the hows and the whys to fix this, lesser mortals can resort to this workaround:

• Create a file called testRunner.js (or whatever)
• add the following lines of code to it
• modify the list of test files per your project
• in webstorm, run the testRunner.js to run your tests

testRunner.js

var testFiles=["test/_helper.js","test/tests.js","test/tests.coffee"];

var Mocha = require('mocha');

var mocha = new Mocha;

mocha.reporter('spec').ui('bdd');

for (var i =0;i<testFiles.length;i++){
 mocha.addFile(testFiles[i]);
}

var runner = mocha.run(function(){
                console.log('finished');

});

Courtesy: http://wuntusk.blogspot.com/2012/06/using-webstorm-or-phpstorm-and-mocha.html

Answer 2

It's caused by a known Windows specific node issue, also logged in JetBrains issue tracker.

Answer 3

Even after implementing Mrchief's answer, I am still getting scrambled reports in the output. I ended up running tests in the terminal window. As a reference;

Make sure mocha is installed globally.

npm install -g mocha

Open the terminal window (Alt-Minus) and change to the directory where your test scripts are

Run mocha

mocha -R spec *.js