Integration testing with Jest, SuperTest, nodejs & expressjs

Integration testing means checking if different modules are working fine when combined together as a group.If you want a better final product, you need integration testing because can detect any change in the flow. Let's code a integration resting with jest and supertest

Objetive

• Test our home page "/"
• Test the authorization validation "/pages"
• Test if we return all the data from an endpoint "/pages"
• Test if we return a specific element "/pages/1"
• Test error message when we cannot find a specific data "/pages/15"

Requirements

• Node >= 8.10
• npm >= 5.6

Demo

Installation

Clone this repository

git https://github.com/ideas2codedev/Integration-Testing-with-jest-supertest-nodejs-express.git

Move to root folder and run:

npm install

Now let's start our application run:

npm start

Now let's test our application run:

npm test

Resources & Credits

NodeJS

https://nodejs.org

Express

https://expressjs.com/

Jest

https://jestjs.io/

SuperTest

https://www.npmjs.com/package/supertest