Testing

Testing rivine-UI is fairly immature and needs many more tests written to aide development.

Technologies

The testing environment has a lot of node modules that aren't used elsewhere in the app. The open source community really shines here in that the testing environment for our app, though using a somewhat obscure framework like electron, has a lot of node packages that cater to its testing needs.

WebDriverIO

The primary technology used for testing is since it seems to have some level of support for an electron framework. It is a module of node.js bindings for the older Selenium WebDriver.

spectron

You'll notice WebDriverIO isn't actually a devDependency in the package.json, that's because there's a lot of heavy lifting to make WebDriverIO cooperate with electron that is already done in this package. This module is super useful and a great source of examples for testing and working with Javascript Promises in general.

Mocha

This is a popular choice for running series of tests within a node environment.

Electron-mocha

This module enables electron modules to be require()ed in js test files ran by mocha.

Chai

This module allows for clean testing syntax in the form of behavior-driven-development (BDD).

Chai As Promised

This builds off of Chai and "pairs really nicely with" WebDriverIO as detailed in spectron's README