[Unit testing + Jest] Use a Test Object Factory utils/generate
You can have a untils folder under root folder, to let jest include your files, you can do:
const path = require('path') module.exports = { displayName: 'exercise', roots: [path.join(__dirname, '../src')], rootDir: path.join(__dirname, '..'), testEnvironment: 'node', testMatch: ['**/__tests__/*.exercise.*'], moduleDirectories: [ 'node_modules', __dirname, path.join(__dirname, '../src'), ], coverageDirectory: path.join(__dirname, '../coverage-exercises'), coveragePathIgnorePatterns: ['.*/__tests__/.*'], setupFilesAfterEnv: [require.resolve('./setup-env')], watchPlugins: [ require.resolve('jest-watch-typeahead/filename'), require.resolve('jest-watch-typeahead/testname'), ], }
SO that you can include those file at test:
import {buildNext, buildRes} from 'utils/generate'
Helper functions:
function buildReq({user = buildUser(), ...overrides} = {}) { const req = {user, body: {}, params: {}, ...overrides} return req } function buildRes(overrides = {}) { const res = { json: jest.fn(() => res).mockName('json'), status: jest.fn(() => res).mockName('status'), ...overrides, } return res } function buildNext(impl) { return jest.fn(impl).mockName('next') }
Test example:
test('if res.headersSent, then pass down error', () => { const res = buildRes({headersSent: true}) const next = buildNext() const error = new Error('error') errorMiddleware(error, null, res, next) expect(next).toHaveBeenCalledWith(error) expect(next).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1) expect(res.json).not.toHaveBeenCalled() expect(res.status).not.toHaveBeenCalled() })