Testing in Node.js Using Mocha and Chai [2/2]

Learn advanced use cases for testing your NodeJS APIs.

We introduced you to the basics of testing in Node.js in the previous post. As we promised, this post picks up from where the previous post left off and discusses more advanced concepts related to testing a Node.js program.

In this post, we are going to introduce you to the second level of testing software, integration testing, and common testing practices like mocking and stubbing.

To start, let’s understand what integration testing is and why we need it.

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Testing in Node.js Using Mocha and Chai [2/2]

Learn advanced use cases for testing your NodeJS APIs. We are going to introduce you to the second level of testing software, integration testing, and common testing practices like mocking and stubbing. To start with Node.js integration testing, we will use Mocha and Chai NPM packages. We are going to use an Express server with REST endpoints for our testing purposes. To send HTTP requests to this server during testing, we use a new package called chai-http. Make sure to install chai-http using npm install command before continuing

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Testing in Node.js Using Mocha and Chai [2/2]