docs for meta-generated tests

[tj]

No description provided.

[felixrabe]

+1

[felixrabe]

Would this be similar to PHPUnit data providers, or rather like this?

function genTests(db) {
  test('one thing', function() { /* ... */ });
  test('another thing', function() { /* ... */ });
};

suite('In-memory database', function() {
  genTests(new InMemoryDB());
});

suite('Remote database', function() {
  genTests(new RemoteDB('10.1.1.1'));
});

suite('Filesystem database', function() {
  genTests(new FilesystemDB(__dirname + '/_test.db'));
});

[boneskull]

I have no idea what this ticket even is. @felixrabe can you enlighten me?

[felixrabe]

@boneskull On http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/, Cmd-F for "meta-generate". It appears exactly once, in the features section:

• easily meta-generate suites & test-cases

But it is not described anywhere.

[boneskull]

Hm. I don't know what the hell "meta-generation" is, but my WAG is creating describe() and it() blocks in a loop, or conditionally, or whathaveyou.

It'd be cool to have the "recommended way" to do this in the docs or wiki.

[felixrabe]

I don't know how it is intended / recommended to work, but I'm using my example above just fine.