Node.js unit testing

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Mark picture Mark · Aug 31, 2011 · Viewed 86.4k times · Source

Are there any good Node.js (server-side JavaScript) unit testing frameworks currently out there?

I'm looking for something a little deeper than the provided Assert module.

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evilcelery picture evilcelery · Aug 31, 2011

I ended up using Nodeunit and am really happy with it.

I was using Expresso originally, but the fact that it runs tests in parallel caused a few problems. (For example, using database fixtures doesn't work well in this situation.)

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