BDD and TDD for node.js?

Question

What is used for BDD and TDD with node.js?

I\'m used to use Cucumber + RSpec. What\'s a good combo for node.js?

thanks

Answer 1

Update

Mocha gets my vote now!

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You could have a look at the testing modules section from the node.js modules page. For example Vows is a pretty popular BDD framework.

Vows is a behavior driven development framework for Node.js.

Answer 2

If you are used to rspec, Jasmine is pretty nice. I've not used it on Node.js, but I have used it for testing a backbone app. It's syntax is very similar to rspec. Taken from the site above:

describe("Jasmine", function() {
  it("makes testing JavaScript awesome!", function() {
    expect(yourCode).toBeLotsBetter();
  });
});

It's listed in the link provided by Alfred above, but since folks listed Vows as an example, I figured I'd give Jasmine a bump, especially since it's syntactically similar to rspec ;)

Answer 3

Maybe a little later, but what you're looking for is Kyuri: https://github.com/nodejitsu/kyuri

"kyuri is a node.js Cucumber implementation with a few extra asynchronous keywords. it supports 160+ languages and exports to VowsJS stubs"

Also, nodejitsu seems to have built a web app for managing a project Kyuri feature specs in a collaborative way, it's named "prenup", I would give it a look.

Answer 4

Package a (bdd and mocking) https://npmjs.org/package/a

Very compact syntax, context separated from acts, chainable acts. Easy Cmd line runner that searches recursively.

Answer 5

I was going through the same concern last month .

For BDD :

Though Mocha itself provides BDD style by their describe and it statements.

For styles like cucumber , you can try :

• mocha-cakes
• mocha-gherkin
• cucumber.js
• kyuri
• mocha-cucumber

They all have their own styles. I am sorry I can not provide working snippets now , let me know @Donald which one you select. Would like to know your insight.