Whiskey is a simple test runner for NodeJS applications.

• Each test file is run in a separate process
• Support for a test file timeout
• Support for a "failfast mode" (runner exits after a first failure / timeout)
• setUp / tearDown function support
• Support for a global initialization function which is run once before all the tests
• Support for a test initialization function which is run before running the tests in a test file
• Nicely formatted output (colors!)

• Support for "TAP" output (http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
• Add tests for the custom asserts commands

• optparse-js
• async
• sprintf

• 15.04.2011 - v0.2.3:

  • Better reporting on a test file timeout
  • Properly report if a test file does not exist or some other uncaught exception was thrown
  • Fix a bug with output buffer not being fully flushed on exit on OS X
  • add --print-stdout and --print-stderr option

• 30.03.2011 - v0.2.2:

  • Add timeout support to the init, setUp and tearDown function - if the callback passed to one of those functions is not called in timeout milliseconds, an exception is thrown and test execution is aborted
  • Test timeout is now properly reported as a failure

• 27.03.2011 - v0.2.1:

  • Handle uncaughtExceptions better
  • Use lighter colors so test status output is more distinguishable
  • Fix bug with "cannot find module" exception not being properly reported
  • Add support for per-test file init function / file
  • Print stdout and stderr on failure

• 26.03.2011 - v0.2.0

  • Add support for the failfast mode (runner exists after a first failure)
  • User can specify custom test timeout by passing in the --timeout argument
  • Add support for a setUp and tearDown function
  • Add colors to the output
  • Now each test file must export all the test functions so the runner can iterate over them
  • Add support for a global initialization file / function (init function in this file is run before all the tests in a main process and can perform some kind of global initialization)
  • Add support for --chdir argument

• 25.03.2011 - v0.1.0

  • Initial release (refactor module out from Cast and move it into a separate project)

Install it using npm: npm install whiskey

whiskey [options] --tests <test files>

-t, --tests - Whitespace separated list of test files to run
-i, --init-file - A path to the initialization file which must export init function which is called once in the main process before running the tests
-ti, --test-init-file - A path to the initialization file which must export
init function and it is called in a child process before running the tests in each test file
-c, --chdir - An optional path to which the child process will chdir to before running the tests
-f, --failfaist - Use this option to exit upon first failure / timeout

Note: When specifying multiple test a list with the test paths must be quoted, for example: whiskey --tests "tests/a.js tests/b.js tests/c.js"

For examples, check the example folder.