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Daniel Li
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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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Structuring our test files


Next, we are going to write our unit tests, but where should we put them? There are generally two approaches:

  • Placing all tests for the application in a top-level test/ directory
  • Placing the unit tests for a module of code next to the module itself, and using a generic test directory only for application-level integration tests (for example, testing integration with external resources such as databases)

The second approach (as shown in the following example) is better as it keeps each module truly separated in the filesystem:

$ tree
.
├── src
│   └── feature
│       ├── index.js
│       └── index.unit.test.js
└── test
    ├── db.integration.test.js
    └── app.integration.test.js

Furthermore, we're going to use the .test.js extension to indicate that a file contains tests (although using .spec.js is also a common convention). We will be even more explicit and specify the type of test in the extension itself; that is, using unit.test.js for unit test, andintegration...

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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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