ava/no-ignored-test-files

February 8, 2026 · View on GitHub

📝 Disallow tests in ignored files.

💼 This rule is enabled in the ✅ recommended config.

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This rule will verify that files which create tests are treated as test files by AVA. It will consider the root of the project to be the closest folder containing a package.json file, and will not do anything if it can't find one. Test files in node_modules will not be linted as they are ignored by ESLint.

Examples

import test from 'ava';

// ❌ File: test/_helper.js - Invalid because a helper.
// ❌ File: lib/foo.js - Invalid because not a test file.
// ✅ File: test/foo.js
test('foo', t => {
	t.pass();
});

Options

This rule supports the following options:

  • extensions: an array of extensions of the files that AVA recognizes as test files or helpers. Overrides both the babel.extensions and extensions configuration otherwise used by AVA itself.
  • files: an array of glob patterns to select test files. Overrides the files configuration otherwise used by AVA itself.
  • helpers: an array of glob patterns to select helper files. Overrides the helpers configuration otherwise used by AVA itself.

See also AVA's configuration.

You can set the options like this:

"ava/no-ignored-test-files": ["error", {"files": ["lib/**/*.test.js", "utils/**/*.test.js"]}]