Get Test File

Do you like to debug your tests? If so, you have probably felt the frustration of accidentally hitting F5 whilst the file under test still has focus and then your test runner says it can't find any tests.

Well, Get Test File might just be the solution. Simply name your files and test files the same, but with "spec" before the file extension and this vscode extension will figure out what to run for you.

Usage

Use the command ${command:getTestFile} in your .vscode/launch.json file or via ctrl/cmd+shift+p.

launch.json example

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Unit Tests: Current File",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/.bin/_mocha",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "args": [
                "-u", "tdd",
                "--timeout=999999",
                "--colors",
                "--opts", "${workspaceRoot}/mocha.opts",
                "${command:getTestFile}"
            ],
        }
    ]
}

Features

• If your files and test files follow the following pattern, then you will be able to just press F5 and automatically run your test file whether file.js or file.spec.js currently has focus:

  folder
      file.js
      file.spec.js
  

• Designed to be file type agnostic, so it should work with .js, .ts, .py or anything else. However, as I only really work with JavaScript I have not tested this.

Planed features

• [ ] Make the test file filename marker configurable, it is currently hardcoded to work with .spec.js but .test.js is popular too.
• [ ] Make the path to test files configurable, it is currently hardcoded to assume the test file is on the same path as the focussed file.

Release Notes

0.1.0

Initial release