Suites: Describe Your Tests

A test suite in TestBox is a collection of specifications that will model what you want to test. The way the suite is expressed can be of many different types as we will investigate.

Test suite is a container that has a set of tests which helps testers in executing and reporting the test execution status.

A test suite begins with a call to our TestBox describe() function with at least two arguments: a title and a body function/closure. The title is the name of the suite to register and the body function/closure is the block of code that implements the suite.

When applying BDD to your tests, this function is used to describe your story scenarios that you will implement.

function run( testResults, testBox ){

     describe("A suite", function(){
          it("contains spec with an awesome expectation", function(){
               expect( true ).toBeTrue();
          });
          it("contains spec with a failure expectation", function(){
               expect( true ).toBeFalse();
          });
     });

}

The describe() function is also aliased with the following names:story(), feature(), scenario(), given(), when()

Arguments

There are more arguments which you can see below:

Argument

Required

Default

Type

Description

title

true

---

string

The title of the suite to register

body

true

---

closure/udf

The closure that represents the test suite

labels

false

---

string/array

The list or array of labels this suite group belongs to

asyncAll

false

false

Boolean

If you want to parallelize the execution of the defined specs in this suite group.

skip

false

false

Boolean

A flag or a closure that tells TestBox to skip this suite group from testing if true. If this is a closure it must return boolean.

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