nodejs unit test related----faker-cli, sinonjs, mock/stub

http://www.tuicool.com/articles/rAnaYvn

http://www.tuicool.com/articles/Y73aYn

(contrast stub and mock in java )http://www.cnblogs.com/TankXiao/archive/2012/03/06/2366073.html

http://shaynegui.com/javascript-unit-test-sinonjs/

http://shaynegui.com/javascript-unit-test-sinonjs/

http://sinonjs.org/docs/#spies

模拟输入可以用Sinon，它可以模拟包括ajax调用的各类程序调用来进行测试。也就是用Faker.js来生成软件测试时所需要的各式各样的数据。

test data generator: Faker.js

npm install -g faker-cli

Nodejs的单元测试工具

1. 测试框架 mocha

2. 断言库：should.js、expect.js、chai

3. 覆盖率：istanbul、jscover、blanket

4. Mock库：muk

5. 测试私有方法：rewire

6. Web测试：supertest

7. 持续集成：Travis-cli

QUnit is very easy to get started with, as you only need to include two files(qunit.css and qunit.js) and a little bit of markup, then you can start writing tests. QUnit is TDD style tests.

Jasmine is easier to get started – it’s all-in-one package will generally get you and a team up and testing much faster, and you’ll be in good hands with it. Jasmine is BDD style tests.

Mocha is significantly more flexible, but you have to piece it together yourself. There is no spy framework built in to Mocha, so most people use sinon.js. There’s no assertion framework built in to Mocha either, so you’ll have to pick one. Chai is the popular one, but there are many, many others available. You can also configure Mocha for BDD (jasmine style) or TDD (QUnit style) easily. But you have to pick and choose how you want Mocha to work. This flexibility is great because you can build the test environment that you really want. But it means you have more work to do, more individual pieces to maintain /  keep up to date, etc.