Generate Node.js unit tests from fixtures and callbacks

Provides test callbacks with Fixura's functions to fetch test fixtures.

Usage

The test fixture directory is parsed as follows: Each subdirectory becomes a unit test group (node:test's describe) and inner subdirectories each represent individual tests (node:test's it). For custom test variables see metadata example.

import generateTests from '@natlibfi/fixugen';
import {dirname} from 'node:path';
import {fileURLToPath} from 'node:url';

const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

generateTests({
  callback,
  path: [__dirname, '..', 'test-fixtures']
});

function callback({getFixture, custom}) {
  const expectedValue = getFixture('value.txt');
  const value = generateSomething(custom);
  expect(value).to.equal(expectedValue);
}

Options

• callback: A callback function passed to node:test's it. Receives Fixura's function as arguments.
  • dirName: callback gets dirName variable that is one folder up
• path: An array of path components which make up a path to the test fixtures directory
• recurse: Whether to recurse into the subdirectories of path. If false the last directory of the path is used as the name of the node:test's describe-call and it's direct subdirectories are used as unit test directories. Defaults to true
• fixura: Options that are passed to Fixura.
• useMetadataFile: If set to true, reads and parses a file named metadata.json in each unit test directory. The content must be a JSON object and it's properties as passed to the unit test callback function.
  • If a property description is present, it is used as the test's description (Defaults to false and folder name is used).
  • If a property skip is present, it decides if test is skipped (Defaults to false).
  • If a property only is present, it decides if this/these tests are only run (Defaults to false).
• hooks: An object which maps the following properties to node:test's corresponding callbacks: after, before, afterEach, beforeEach

Example metadata.json

{
  "description": "Example description of test",
  "skip": false,
  "only": false,
  "custom": "Custom variable delivered for test"
}

License and copyright

Copyright (c) 2020, 2023-2026 University Of Helsinki (The National Library Of Finland)

This project's source code is licensed under the terms of MIT or any later version.