How to run/develop unit tests for a plugin

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Hi all

I’m trying to write unit tests for the pimatic-mysensors plugin.
I wanted to use the unit tests from several other pimatic plugins as starting point.

My problem is, that I’m not able to run tests for e.g. the pimatic-cron plugin.
When I try to run the unit tests from the command line with the following command:

mocha cron-test.coffee --compilers coffee:coffee-script/register

no unit tests are found (the command line states " 0 passing (0ms)").

It seems, that the “module.exports = (env) ->” causes this problem.

When I run the same command without the “module.exports…”, the unit tests are found by mocha.

Can anyone tell me how to run the unit tests of the pimatic-plugins? What command line options are necessary?

In the end, I would like to have some kind of “dummy” framework object to be able to test my plugin.

Cheers,
Maurus

@TheRaspyDev
sorry, cannot answer directly to your questions, but I guess your issue is related to this one here : http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/466/test-driver-for-pimatic-plugins

maybe you can work together with @mwittig and @sweetpi to develop a test driver for plugins.

Hi @TheRaspyDev,

activate the code in: https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/blob/master/test/plugins-test.coffee
Change to node_modules/pimatic and run grunt test:pimatic-your-plugin (assuming you’ve installed grunt)

The test framework is currently not very good, that’s the main reason the code is deactivated. If you have ideas to improve it, let me know.