find-test-names

Given a Mocha / Cypress spec file, returns the list of suite and test names

Install

# install using NPM, probably as a dev dependency
$ npm i -D find-test-names
# install using Yarn
$ yarn add -D find-test-names

Use

const { getTestNames } = require('find-test-names')
const result = getTestNames(specSourceCode)
// { "suiteNames": [], "testNames": [], "tests": [] }

The tests is a list with each test and suite name, and optional list of tags.

// spec.js
it('works', {tags: ['@user']}, () => { ... })
// found test names
// { tests: [{ name: 'works', tags: ['@user'] }] }

withStructure

You can get the entire structure of suites and tests by passing true argument

const result = getTestNames(specSourceCode, true)
// use the result.structure array

To view this in action, use npm run demo-structure which points at bin/find-tests.js

Pending tests

The tests it.skip are extracted and have the property pending: true

setEffectiveTags

Often, you want to have each test and see which tags it has and what parent tags apply to it. You can compute for each test a list of effective tags and set it for each test.

// example spec code
describe('parent', { tags: '@user' }, () => {
  describe('parent', { tags: '@auth' }, () => {
    it('works a', { tags: '@one' }, () => {})
    it('works b', () => {})
  })
})

const { getTestNames, setEffectiveTags } = require('find-test-names')
const result = getTestNames(source, true)
setEffectiveTags(result.structure)

If you traverse the result.structure, the test "works a" will have the effectiveTags list with @user, @auth, @one, and the test "works b" will have the effectiveTags list with @user, @auth, @one.

filterByEffectiveTags

Once you setEffectiveTags, you can filter all tests by an effective tag. For example, to fid all tests with the given tag:

const {
  getTestNames,
  setEffectiveTags,
  filterByEffectiveTags,
} = require('find-test-names')
const result = getTestNames(source, true)
setEffectiveTags(result.structure)
const tests = filterByEffectiveTags(result.structure, ['@one'])

Returns individual test objects.

Tip: you can pass the source code and the tags to the filterByEffectiveTags function and let it parse it

const filtered = filterByEffectiveTags(source, ['@user'])

findEffectiveTestTags

Returns a single object with full test titles as keys. For each key, the value is the list of effective tags. See the find-effective-tags.js spec file.

findEffectiveTestTagsIn

You can use the utility method findEffectiveTestTagsIn(filename) to let this module read the file from disk and find the effective tags that apply to each test by its full title.

requiredTags

The test and suite options object can have another list of tags called requiredTags

it(
  'works a',
  {
    tags: '@one',
    requiredTags: ['@data'],
  },
  () => {},
)

These tags also will be extracted and the effective required tags from the parent suites applied to the children tests.

Supports

• JSX in the source code
• TypeScript

Bin

This package includes bin/find-test-names.js that you can use from the command line

$ npx find-test-names <path to the spec file>
# prints the describe and test names found in the spec file

print-tests

Print found suites an tests

$ npx print-tests <spec pattern>

For example, in this repo

$ npx print-tests 'test-cy/**/*.js'

test-cy/spec-a.js
└─ Suite A
  ├─ works 1
  └─ works 2

test-cy/spec-b.js
└─ Suite B
  ├─ works 1
  └─ works 2

Pending tests and suites are marked with ⊙ character like this:

├─ first
├⊙ second
└⊙ last

Exclusive tests are shown with > character like this:

├─ first
├> second
└─ last

If there are tags, they are shown after the name

├─ first [tag1, tag2]
├─ second [@sanity]
└─ last

If there are required test tags, they are shown after the test name using double brackets [[ ]]

├─ first [tag1, tag2]
├─ second [@sanity] [[clean]]
└─ last

Unknown test names

Sometimes a test name comes from a variable, not from a literal string.

// test name is a variable, not a literal string
const testName = 'nice'
it(testName, () => {})

In that case, the tags are still extracted. When printing, such tests have name <unknown test>.

comment lines

If the test function has preceding comment lines, the comment line right before the test is extracted and included

// line 1
// line 2
// line 3
it('works', ...)
// extracted test object will have
// name: "works",
// comment: "line 3"

Debugging

Run with the environment variable DEBUG=find-test-names to see verbose logs

$ DEBUG=find-test-names npx find-test-names
...
2023-02-28T12:45:21.074Z find-test-names parsing source as a script
2023-02-28T12:45:21.083Z find-test-names success!
2023-02-28T12:45:21.084Z find-test-names found test "has jsx component"
2023-02-28T12:45:21.084Z find-test-names found describe "parent"

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov <[e-mail]> © 2021

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

MIT License

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