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Aesthetically, the app looks great. Is it normal for there to be zero test coverage in a meteor app? That concerns me. I did see this thread in the issue tracke

Aesthetically, the app looks great. Is it normal for there to be zero test coverage in a meteor app? That concerns me. I did see this thread in the issue tracker: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/467 https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/467

Lazare 11y ago
> Is it normal for there to be zero test coverage in a meteor app? In my experience, yes. Meteor has traditionally had a culture that focused a lot on tech demos and experimental projects, rather than stability and production. Sort of the anti-Angular 1.x. :) (Man, I wonder if that comparison will annoy Angular fans or Meteor fans more? But I think it has some truth in it.)
alanning 11y ago
Initially Meteor didn't have any support for testing apps. Since it has always had support for testing packages, teams generally had to split their app up into several private packages to allow for testing (with benefits to modularity too). The Velocity project [1] was started to address this issue and now supports testing apps with Jasmine, Cucumber, and Mocha. There are also individual testing frameworks for Meteor apps such as Nightwatch (now StarryNight). Even with Velocity, testing a Meteor app is not as easy to set up as testing a Rails app so I would guess most teams don't make it a priority unless they are going into production. Packages, however, are another story and my impression is that all of the most popular packages [2] have fairly extensive test suites. 1. http://velocity.meteor.com http://velocity.meteor.com 2. https://atmospherejs.com/packages/most-used https://atmospherejs.com/packages/most-used
- Touche 11y ago
  > Initially Meteor didn't have any support for testing apps. I don't understand what this means... why do you need a framework to "support" testing. Can't you just... write a test using QUnit or Mocha or Tape or whatever you like?
  - jimbobimbo 11y ago
    The framework can make or break your testing. If it's very hard or impossible to mock parts of the framework, your testing will be significantly hindered.
sergiotapia 11y ago
Yes, Meteor apps generally do not have tests. There is not a test tool that integrates to it well. At best there's Velocity but that's been deprecated for Chimp or some other tool. Pretty bad situation.
- corv 11y ago
  Built in testing suite is coming with the next release - 1.3.
  - sergiotapia 11y ago
    Yes, and I am super duper pumped.

Lazare 11y ago

> Is it normal for there to be zero test coverage in a meteor app? In my experience, yes. Meteor has traditionally had a culture that focused a lot on tech demos and experimental projects, rather than stability and production. Sort of the anti-Angular 1.x. :) (Man, I wonder if that comparison will annoy Angular fans or Meteor fans more? But I think it has some truth in it.)

alanning 11y ago

Initially Meteor didn't have any support for testing apps. Since it has always had support for testing packages, teams generally had to split their app up into several private packages to allow for testing (with benefits to modularity too). The Velocity project [1] was started to address this issue and now supports testing apps with Jasmine, Cucumber, and Mocha. There are also individual testing frameworks for Meteor apps such as Nightwatch (now StarryNight). Even with Velocity, testing a Meteor app is not as easy to set up as testing a Rails app so I would guess most teams don't make it a priority unless they are going into production. Packages, however, are another story and my impression is that all of the most popular packages [2] have fairly extensive test suites. 1. http://velocity.meteor.com http://velocity.meteor.com 2. https://atmospherejs.com/packages/most-used https://atmospherejs.com/packages/most-used

Touche 11y ago
> Initially Meteor didn't have any support for testing apps. I don't understand what this means... why do you need a framework to "support" testing. Can't you just... write a test using QUnit or Mocha or Tape or whatever you like?
- jimbobimbo 11y ago
  The framework can make or break your testing. If it's very hard or impossible to mock parts of the framework, your testing will be significantly hindered.

sergiotapia 11y ago

Yes, Meteor apps generally do not have tests. There is not a test tool that integrates to it well. At best there's Velocity but that's been deprecated for Chimp or some other tool. Pretty bad situation.

corv 11y ago
Built in testing suite is coming with the next release - 1.3.
- sergiotapia 11y ago
  Yes, and I am super duper pumped.