Tripwire is a set of Testing support utilities, it is designed to be used for testing and validating you JavaScript or TypeScript package, whether they are designed to work in node
, browser
or worker
(browser) environments. This mono-repo itself it tested and validated in all 3 environments.
It currently provides assertion
functions to make testing simplier and easier by providing common assertion checks that you can run against your code.
It provides both assert
and expect
support, where the assert
functions are a set of fixed operations, which the expect
is a more descriptive language API.
The assert
functions are built on-top of the underlying expect
support, and if no assertions are thrown the result of the internal "chained" descriptive language API is returned. Which means you can mix the expect
objects with the responses from the assert
functions.
To avoid dependency issues, this project will use the mininal set of external dependencies so that it can ensure and maintain compatibility with current (and future) runtimes.
As part of the Mono-Repo it also provides some shim implementations which are designed to be a drop in replacement for your basic usages of older frameworks which might no longer be working for you due to dependency or runtime issues. Which is exactly how and why this library cam into existence as with the moving environment of dependency updates causing some our the other projects to grind to a halt due to breakages caused by other frameworks that where not fixed, specifically for testing in a Worker environment.
The API documentation is generated from the source code via typedoc and is located here
Provides the core assertion utilities and located in the core
folder.
It is designed to work in and is tested with the following environments.
node
browser
worker
(browser)
It currently provides assertion
functions to make testing simplier and easier by providing common assertion checks that you can run against your code.
It provides both assert
and expect
support, where the assert
functions are a set of fixed operations, which the expect
is a more descriptive language API.
The assert
functions are built on-top of the underlying expect
support, and if no assertions are thrown the result of the internal "chained" descriptive language API is returned. Which means you can mix the expect
objects with the responses from the assert
functions.
To avoid dependency issues, this project will use the mininal set of external dependencies so that it can ensure and maintain compatibility with current (and future) runtimes.
Provides basic support for the Chai Js assertion library which uses the tripwire and located in the shim/chai
folder.
This Shim is not designed to be a complete 1:1 replacement for Chai, it's primary focus is to provide a quicker migration option using your existing chai based assert.*
functions, so that once you have validated that tripwire
works or resolves your issues you can (if required) switch over to the full core
module.
As part of this the returned "error messages" do not and will not match the assertion text returned by chai
, if your unit tests include validation of the returned error messages then they will need to be updated, it is recommended to use regular expressions to validate the returned error message when required.
As of the initial version not all functions are yet implemented
Install the npm packare: npm install @nevware21/tripwire --save-dev
It is suggested / recommended that you use the following definition in your
package.json
so that you are compatible with any future releases as they become available we do not intend to make ANY known breaking changes moving forward until v2.x"@nevware21/tripwire": ">= 0.1.1 < 2.x"
To use the core functionalities, import the necessary modules and functions:
import { assert, expect } from '@nevware21/tripwire';
assert.isObject([]); // throws
expect(() => { dosomething(); }).to.not.throw();
expect(() => { throw new Error("failed")}).to.throw();
General support is currently set to ES5 supported runtimes and higher.
This module uses @nevware21/ts-utils to provide some of it core functionality which includes internal polyfills to provide support on older browsers.
While every effort will be made to maintain as much technical compatibility as possible, some assertions and functionality will require later browsers to function correctly.
Read our primary contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.