gulp-npm-test

A gulp task to run tests, defaults to npm test, with automatic notifications + various options / configuration possibilities...

Use

As simple as it gets:

var gulp = require('gulp')
require('gulp-npm-test')(gulp)

Configure

It takes configuration options - here is an example, loosely borrowed from datomiki's gulpfile.js:

var gulp = require('gulp-npm-test')(gulp, {
  taskName: 'test', // this is the default
  taskHelp: 'A test task.', // irrelevant if not using beverage or gulp-help
  withoutNpmRun: true, // the default, otherwise runs `npm test`
  watch: ['index.js', 'test/*.spec.coffee'], // create a test:watch task using gulp-watch
  testsRe: '\\.spec\\.coffee$', // a RegExp (String) to match test files with (for watching)
  templates: 'your-custom-overrides.json', // deep-merged into notifications.json
  templateFull: 'test', // for running all the tests
  templatePart: 'test-part' // partial testing (e.g. test file change event)
})

Watching

In the above example if testsRe isn't set -- all tests will be run each time, no matter which file triggers the test call. Notice the testsRe option is expected to be a String and therefore '' has to be escaped as '\' -- e.g. /\./ is '\\.'.

One could setup more custom watching by using gulp-cause directly or otherwise.

Further

All of the above options are optional if the defaults turn out good-enough.

The test task can take a glob / path to a specific test with a -t or --test, though you probably need to set the test testCmd option, and use a framework that would be ok with it:

gulp test -t test/some.spec.coffee

See childish-process for templates / options / notifications.

Happy testing!

Tests

install.sh #once 
npm test

Though gulp-npm-test should work on any platform, its tests probably need a *nix to run - Linux, Mac, etc.

Develop

License

MIT