# jasmine-node

> DOM-less simple JavaScript BDD testing framework for Node

Latest version **3.0.0** (published 2019-05-21) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install jasmine-node
pnpm add jasmine-node
yarn add jasmine-node
bun add jasmine-node
```

Provides the command `jasmine-node`.

## Health

**Score 23/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: has types package; no vulnerabilities; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.0.0 |
| Published | 2019-05-21 |
| First published | 2010-12-28 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | separate (@types/jasmine-node) |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 8 |
| Unpacked size | 161.5 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 (+2 in 1 direct dependencies) |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 1509 |
| Author | Misko Hevery |
| Maintainers | brodybits, mhevery, tebriel |
| Keywords | testing, bdd |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jasmine-node
- Repository: https://github.com/mhevery/jasmine-node
- Issues: https://github.com/mhevery/jasmine-node/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/jasmine-node

## Dependencies (8)

- [gaze](https://npm.io/package/gaze.md) ~1.1.2
- [mkdirp](https://npm.io/package/mkdirp.md) ~0.3.5
- [walkdir](https://npm.io/package/walkdir.md) ~0.0.12
- [requirejs](https://npm.io/package/requirejs.md) ~2.3.6
- [underscore](https://npm.io/package/underscore.md) ~1.9.1
- [coffeescript](https://npm.io/package/coffeescript.md) ~1.12.7
- [jasmine-reporters](https://npm.io/package/jasmine-reporters.md) ~1.0.0
- [jasmine-growl-reporter](https://npm.io/package/jasmine-growl-reporter.md) ~2.0.0

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## Recent versions

- 3.0.0 (latest) — 2019-05-21
- 2.0.1 (edge) — 2018-06-19
- 2.0.0-beta4 (2.0.0-beta3) — 2014-04-19
- 2.0.0-beta1 (2.0.0-beta1) — 2014-03-07
- 2.0.0 (beta) — 2014-03-07
- 1.16.2 — 2018-09-04
- 1.16.1 — 2018-09-04
- 1.16.0 — 2018-08-31
- 1.15.0 — 2018-06-21
- 1.14.6 — 2018-06-19
- 1.14.5 — 2014-07-16
- 1.14.4 — 2014-07-16
- 1.14.3 — 2014-03-29
- 2.0.0-beta3 — 2014-03-10
- 2.0.0-beta2 — 2014-03-09
- … 57 more at https://npm.io/package/jasmine-node/versions

## README

jasmine-node
======

[![LICENSE](https://img.shields.io/github/license/mhevery/jasmine-node.svg?style=flat-square)](./LICENSE)
[![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/jasmine-node.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/jasmine-node)
[![contributors](https://img.shields.io/badge/contributors-many-purple.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/mhevery/jasmine-node/graphs/contributors)

This node.js module makes the wonderful [Pivotal Lab's jasmine](http://github.com/pivotal/jasmine)
spec framework (version 1) available in node.js.


Project status
--------------

This project is now in maintenance mode. It is recommended to use the `jasmine` or `jasmine-npm`
package whenever possible.


jasmine
-------

Version `1.3.1` of Jasmine is currently included with node-jasmine. This is a forked version from the
[Karma project](https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-jasmine), which allows you to use the
`ddescribe` and `iit` functions to run individual suites or specs.

NOTICE: BETA `2.0.0` Support in the `Jasmine2.0` branch (with rewrite in CoffeeScript) is now abandoned and no longer supported.

Supported Node.js versions
--------------------------

* Current:
  - 10
  - 12
* Deprecated:
  - 8 (EOL in December 2019)
  - 6 (already past EOL)
  - 4 (already past EOL)

Older versions of Node.js are no longer supported. It is *highly* recommended to upgrade to a supported version of Node.js.

what's new
----------
*  Growl notifications with the `--growl` flag (requires Growl to be installed)
*  Ability to test specs written in Literate CoffeeScript
*  Teamcity Reporter reinstated.
*  Ability to specify multiple files to test via list in command line
*  Ability to suppress stack trace with `--noStack`
*  Async tests now run in the expected context instead of the global one
*  `--config` flag that allows you to assign variables to process.env
*  Terminal Reporters are now available in the Jasmine Object #184
*  Done is now available in all timeout specs #199
*  `afterEach` is available in requirejs #179
*  Editors that replace instead of changing files should work with autotest #198
*  Jasmine Mock Clock now works!
*  Autotest now works!
*  Using the latest Jasmine!
*  Verbose mode tabs `describe` blocks much more accurately!
*  `--coffee` now allows specs written in Literate CoffeeScript (`.litcoffee`)

install
------

To install the latest official version, use NPM:

```sh
npm install jasmine-node -g
```

To install the latest _bleeding edge_ version, clone this repository and check
out the `beta` branch.

usage
------

Write the specifications for your code in `*.js` and `*.coffee` files in the `spec/` directory.
You can use sub-directories to better organise your specs. In the specs use `describe()`, `it()` etc. exactly
as you would in client-side jasmine specs.

**Note**: your specification files must be named as `*spec.js`, `*spec.coffee` or `*spec.litcoffee`,
which matches the regular expression `/spec\.(js|coffee|litcoffee)$/i`;
otherwise jasmine-node won't find them!
For example, `sampleSpecs.js` is wrong, `sampleSpec.js` is right.

If you have installed the npm package, you can run it with:

```sh
jasmine-node spec/
```

If you aren't using npm, you should add `pwd`/lib to the `$NODE_PATH`
environment variable, then run:

```sh
node lib/jasmine-node/cli.js
```


You can supply the following arguments:

  * `--autotest`, provides automatic execution of specs after each change
  * `--watch`, when used with `--autotest`, paths after `--watch` will be
watched for changes, allowing to watch for changes outside of specs directory
  * `--coffee`, allow execution of `.coffee` and `.litcoffee` specs
  * `--color`, indicates spec output should uses color to
indicates passing (green) or failing (red) specs
  * `--noColor`, do not use color in the output
  * `-m, --match REGEXP`, match only specs containing "REGEXPspec"
  * `--matchall`, relax requirement of "spec" in spec file names
  * `--verbose`, verbose output as the specs are run
  * `--junitreport`, export tests results as junitreport xml format
  * `--output FOLDER`, defines the output folder for junitreport files
  * `--teamcity`, converts all console output to teamcity custom test runner commands. (Normally auto detected.)
  * `--growl`, display test run summary in a growl notification (in addition to other outputs)
  * `--runWithRequireJs`, loads all specs using requirejs instead of node's native require method
  * `--requireJsSetup`, file run before specs to include and configure RequireJS
  * `--test-dir`, the absolute root directory path where tests are located
  * `--nohelpers`, does not load helpers
  * `--forceexit`, force exit once tests complete
  * `--captureExceptions`, listen to global exceptions, report them and exit (interferes with Domains in NodeJs, so do not use if using Domains as well
  * `--config NAME VALUE`, set a global variable in `process.env`
  * `--noStack`, suppress the stack trace generated from a test failure

Individual files to test can be added as bare arguments to the end of the args.

Example:

```bash
jasmine-node --coffee spec/AsyncSpec.coffee spec/CoffeeSpec.coffee spec/SampleSpec.js
```

async tests
-----------

jasmine-node includes an alternate syntax for writing asynchronous tests. Accepting
a done callback in the specification will trigger jasmine-node to run the test
asynchronously waiting until the `done()` callback is called.

```javascript
var request = require('request');

it("should respond with hello world", function(done) {
  request("http://localhost:3000/hello", function(error, response, body){
    expect(body).toEqual("hello world");
    done();
  });
});
```

An asynchronous test will fail after `5000` ms if `done()` is not called. This timeout
can be changed by setting `jasmine.getEnv().defaultTimeoutInterval` or by passing a timeout
interval in the specification.

```javascript
var request = require('request');

it("should respond with hello world", function(done) {
  request("http://localhost:3000/hello", function(error, response, body){
    done();
  });
}, 250); // timeout after 250 ms
```

or

```javascript
var request = require('request');

jasmine.getEnv().defaultTimeoutInterval = 500;

it("should respond with hello world", function(done) {
  request("http://localhost:3000/hello", function(error, response, body){
    done();
  });  // timeout after 500 ms
});
```

Checkout [`spec/SampleSpecs.js`](https://github.com/mhevery/jasmine-node/blob/master/spec/SampleSpecs.js) to see how to use it.


requirejs
---------

There is a sample project in `/spec-requirejs`. It is comprised of:

1.  `requirejs-setup.js`, this pulls in our wrapper template (next)
1.  `requirejs-wrapper-template`, this builds up requirejs settings
1.  `requirejs.sut.js`, this is a __SU__bject To __T__est, something required by requirejs
1.  `requirejs.spec.js`, the actual jasmine spec for testing

To run it:

```sh
node lib/jasmine-node/cli.js --runWithRequireJs --requireJsSetup ./spec-requirejs/requirejs-setup.js ./spec-requirejs/
```

exceptions
----------

Often you'll want to capture an uncaught exception and log it to the console,
this is accomplished by using the `--captureExceptions` flag. Exceptions will
be reported to the console, but jasmine-node will attempt to recover and
continue. It was decided to not change the current functionality until `2.0`. So,
until then, jasmine-node will still return `0` and continue on without this flag.

### Scenario ###

You require a module, but it doesn't exist, ie `require('Q')` instead of
`require('q')`. Jasmine-Node reports the error to the console, but carries on
and returns `0`. This messes up Travis-CI because you need it to return a
non-zero status while doing CI tests.

### Mitigation ###

Before `--captureExceptions`

```sh
> jasmine-node --coffee spec
> echo $status
0
```

Run jasmine node with the `--captureExceptions` flag.

```sh
> jasmine-node --coffee --captureExceptions spec
> echo $status
1
```


growl notifications
-------------------

Jasmine node can display [Growl](http://growl.info) notifications of test
run summaries in addition to other reports.
Growl must be installed separately, see [node-growl](https://github.com/visionmedia/node-growl)
for platform-specific instructions. Pass the `--growl` flag to enable the notifications.


development
-----------

Install the dependent packages by running:

```sh
npm install
```

Run the specs before you send your pull request:

```sh
specs.sh
```

__Note:__ Some tests are designed to fail in the specs.sh. After each of the
individual runs completes, there is a line that lists what the expected
Pass/Assert/Fail count should be. If you add/remove/edit tests, please be sure
to update this with your PR.


changelog
---------

* `1.16.2` Back to `jasmine-growl-reporter@~0.2.0` (needed by Node.js pre-4.0)
* `1.16.1` Use `~` instead of `^` in `dependencies` (may be needed by some really old npm versions)
* `1.16.0` Fix `dependencies` to prevent major package updates
* `1.15.0` Switch to coffeescript package
* `1.14.6` Update dependencies to resolve `npm audit` issues
* `1.14.5` Using `~` instead of `^` for reporter version (thanks to [Maxim-Filimonov](https://github.com/Maxim-Filimonov))
* `1.14.4` Rolled back jasmine reporter version (thanks to [tjmcduffie](https://github.com/tjmcduffie))
* `1.14.3` Added 'onComplete' callback to TeamCityReporter (thanks to [JoergFiedler](https://github.com/JoergFiedler))
* `1.14.2` Uhhh...not sure what happened here.
* `1.14.1` Default to noColors if not in a TTY
* `1.14.0` Add support for `iit`, `ddescribe` (thanks to [mgcrea](https://github.com/mgcrea))
* `1.13.1` Add coffee-script support for 1.7.x (thanks to [nathancarter](https://github.com/nathancarter))
* `1.13.0` Added timing to the verbose reporter (thanks to [rick-kilgore](https://github.com/rick-kilgore))
* `1.12.1` Fixed an issue where an undefined variable caused an unhelpful
   exception in --watch Resolves #278
* `1.12.0`
  *  Changed `util.print` to `stdout.write` (thanks to [nrstott](https://github.com/nrstott))
  *  Don’t affect line numbers with --requireJsSetup (thanks to [daviddaurelio](https://github.com/davidaurelio))
  *  Catch errors when loading helpers (thanks to [pimterry](https://github.com/pimterry))
  *  Keep autotesting until all tests have passed (thanks to [notclive](https://github.com/notclive))
* `1.11.0` Added Growl notification option `--growl` (thanks to
   [AlphaHydrae](https://github.com/AlphaHydrae))
* `1.10.2` Restored stack filter which was accidentally removed (thanks to
   [kevinsawicki](https://github.com/kevinsawicki))
* `1.10.1` `beforeEach` and `afterEach` now properly handle the async-timeout function
* `1.10.0` Skipped tests now show in the terminal reporter's output (thanks
   to [kevinsawicki](https://github.com/kevinsawicki))
* `1.9.1` Timeout now consistent between Async and Non-Async Calls (thanks to
   [codemnky](https://github.com/codemnky))
* `1.9.0` Now re-throwing the file-not-found error, added info to README.md,
   printing version with `--version`
* `1.8.1` Fixed silent failure due to invalid REGEX (thanks to
   [pimterry](https://github.com/pimterry))
* `1.8.0` Fixed bug in autotest with multiple paths and added `--watch` feature
    (thanks to [davegb3](https://github.com/davegb3))
* `1.7.1` Removed unneeded fs dependency (thanks to
   [kevinsawicki](https://github.com/kevinsawicki)) Fixed broken fs call in
   node `0.6` (thanks to [abe33](https://github.com/abe33))
* `1.7.0` Literate CoffeeScript now testable (thanks to [magicmoose](https://github.com/magicmoose))
* `1.6.0` Teamcity Reporter Reinstated (thanks to [bhcleek](https://github.com/bhcleek))
* `1.5.1` Missing files and require exceptions will now report instead of failing silently
* `1.5.0` Now takes multiple files for execution. (thanks to [abe33](https://github.com/abe33))
* `1.4.0` Optional flag to suppress stack trace on test failure (thanks to [Lastalas](https://github.com/Lastalas))
* `1.3.1` Fixed context for async tests (thanks to [omryn](https://github.com/omryn))
* `1.3.0` Added `--config` flag for changeable testing environments
* `1.2.3` Fixed #179, #184, #198, #199. Fixes autotest, afterEach in requirejs, terminal reporter is in jasmine object, done function missing in async tests
* `1.2.2` Revert Exception Capturing to avoid Breaking Domain Tests
* `1.2.1` Emergency fix for path reference missing
* `1.2.0` Fixed #149, #152, #171, #181, #195. `--autotest` now works as expected, jasmine clock now responds to the fake ticking as requested, and removed the path.exists warning
* `1.1.1` Fixed #173, #169 (Blocks were not indented in verbose properly, added more documentation to address #180
* `1.1.0` Updated Jasmine to `1.3.1`, fixed fs missing, catching uncaught exceptions, other fixes

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