Mocha and chai example

runt_test.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# make soure you have mocha installed
npm i mocha -g

# run tests with mocha

mocha --reporter=spec test.spec.js

test.spec.js

var chai = require('chai');

var expect = chai.expect;
var assert = chai.assert;

var testObj = {
  name: "test",
  sub: {
    name: 'test sub'
  },
  numbers: [1, 2, 3, 4],
  hasNumbers : true
};

describe ('Test Suite', function () {
  describe('expect tests', function () {
    it ('should be a valid testObject', function () {
      expect(testObj).to.be.an('object').and.is.ok;
      expect(testObj).to.have.property('sub').that.is.an('object').and.is.ok;
      expect(testObj.sub).to.have.property('name').that.is.a('string').and.to.equal('test sub');
      expect(testObj).to.have.property('numbers').that.deep.equals([1, 2, 3, 4]);
      expect(testObj).to.have.property('hasNumbers', true);
    });

  });

  describe('assert tests', function () {
    it ('should be a valid testObject', function () {
      assert.isOk(testObj);
      assert.isObject(testObj);
      assert.propertyVal(testObj, 'name', 'test');
      assert.property(testObj, 'sub');
      assert.propertyVal(testObj.sub, 'name', 'test sub');
      assert.deepEqual(testObj.numbers, [1, 2, 3, 4]);
      assert.typeOf(testObj.hasNumbers, 'boolean');
      assert.isTrue(testObj.hasNumbers);
    });
  });

});

@mrister, while globals might be confusing for someone who's coming to the project to figure out where those variables are coming from, a config file sounds cool, thank you!

@lonely-cat. Yes that might be true, bit a little bit of documentation in project/s readme goes long way ;-). Glad to help!