How to run jasmine-node tests

[johannesjo]

When I try to run tests written with jasmine-node, all of jasmins core functions are not defind like spyOn or even expect.

"before each" hook: spyOn is not defined
    at api/auth/authC-spec.js:48

1 failing tests, 0 passing

api/auth/authC-spec.js authC should have the following methods available [1 ms]

    expect is not defined
        at api/auth/authC-spec.js:35

Here is the config:

module.exports = function ()
{
    return {
        files: [
            'api/**/*.js',
            '!api/**/*spec.js'
        ],
        tests: [
            'api/**/*spec.js'
        ],
        env: {
            type: 'node',
            runner: 'node',
            env: 'NODE_ENV=test'
        }
    }
};

[johannesjo]

Ok I was able to resolve the issue by using test-framework: jasmine and using jasmine-node@2.0.0. See also: mhevery/jasmine-node#282

Still though jasmine and jasmine-node are not the same and I might run into issues later on.

[johannesjo]

I also run into this issue with mongoose models once the tests are run a second time:

OverwriteModelError: Cannot overwrite `User` model once compiled

That doesn't happen with jasmine-node --autotest

[ArtemGovorov]

Still though jasmine and jasmine-node are not the same and I might run into issues later on.

Yep, I have only tested it with jasmine (for node), not jasmine-node, so you may find something interesting. Please let me know if you do, I don't yet see any reasons why it shouldn't work and will try to fix it if it doesn't.

I also run into this issue with mongoose models once the tests are run a second time

Try setting workers: {recycle: true} - #239

[johannesjo]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. workers: {recycle:true} doesn't do anything for me unfortunately.

[ArtemGovorov]

Interesting, could you please try workers: {recycle:true, initial: 1, regular: 1}?
If the suggestion above doesn't help, would it be possible to create a small sample github repo where it works with jasmine-node --autotest but doesn't work with wallaby? I definitely would like to find out what is going on.

[johannesjo]

That did the trick! Thank you very much. Are these options documented somewhere?

You still need the repo?

[ArtemGovorov]

Ok, cool. Yes here is the documentation - http://wallabyjs.com/docs/config/workers.html. The issue is that by default wallaby tries to run your tests in parallel and mongoose doesn't seem to like it.

[ArtemGovorov]

One possible solution to still allow running your tests in parallel is perhaps using different DBs per worker. You may consider using wallaby.js bootstrap function to set up a DB for worker.

[johannesjo]

Good suggestion and good documentation. Was not able to find that earlier somehow.

I might try that at a later point. So far the tests are still running very fast in my current project.

[ArtemGovorov]

Awesome, then you probably don't need to bother trying to speed it up right now, but can just leave the option for later.
BTW, does it work without recycle:true, just with workers set to 1: workers: {initial: 1, regular: 1}?

[johannesjo]

No it doesn't.

[ArtemGovorov]

Cool, good to know, thanks for checking!