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Introduction to test first development - Node.js Tutorial
From the course: Learning Node.js
Introduction to test first development
- [Narrator] In this video, we'll add a new feature using test-driven development. So we'll add a test first, we'll make it fail and then we'll implement the feature to make the test pass. The new feature we'll add is a new messages get call, or endpoint that will allow us to get the messages from a specific owner, by checking the name. And we'll get that name through a URL parameter. So let's begin by creating a test. We'll start running new describe. And these tests will revolve around getting messages from a specific user. The first test will be the standard, it should return a 200 okay, so I'll just copy this from above from line 10 through line 15 and paste it in our new describe. Next, I'll need to supply a user name at the end of the Url and I'll just use Tim. Let's save that and give it a try. We'll use npm test. We can see there were four specs that were run and one that failed. Our get messages from user should return 200 okay and we got a 404, not found that we expected, to…
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