Introduction

In the previous posts ["Testing Node applications with Intern framework"]({% post_url 2015-03-01-unit-tests-with-intern %}) I demostrated how to set up testing environment for unit tests with Intern and Grunt and in ["REST end to end testing Node applications with Intern framework"]({% post_url 2015-03-03-end-to-end-tests-with-intern %}) I demonstrated how to test REST endpoints with end to end tests in a speed of unit tests. Today I will show how to organize Quality Assurance environment for Unit, Integration and Functional tests.

Grunt and task conventions

Here are tasks which we are using while testing:

• test - execute all tests (unit, integration, functional)
• testing - as above in a watch loop, reexecutes tests when implementation or test sources changes
• test-unit - execute unit tests
• testing-unit - as above in a watch loop, reexecutes tests when implementation or test sources changes
• test-functional - execute functional
• testing-functional - as above in a watch loop, reexecutes tests when implementation or test sources changes
• test-integration - execute integration tests
• testing-integration - as above in a watch loop, reexecutes tests when implementation or test sources changes

Require

• var suite = require('intern!object') - require internal intern suite object
• var tester = require('../lib/restServerTester') - require AMD styled file
• var express = require('intern/dojo/node!express') - require CommonJS module
• var swagger = require('intern/dojo/node!../../index') - require custom CommonJS module from relative path