mouka

🍞 simple, proprietary, fun javascript test framework for comparative testing

Mouka is a Czech word for flour. And it sounds like mocha :D

what? why?

Don't worry. Mouka does not aspire to be the next big testing framework. It's just a proprietary tool for slightly different way of testing code that would be otherwise hard to test with mocha. In my quest for making multiplatform easier I started development of couple of wrappers (uwp-fs, uwp-socket and other unpublished projects) that mimic Node APIs and need to be tested against those APIs. Mocha did not fit my needs so I created this inspired-by-mocha script that eventually outgrew its parent repository when I needed to use this handy testing tool in other repos.

Mocha - is a great project for when you are only testing your APIs that is being built from ground up. But testing a project to match already exiting API (Node's fs, stream, net, etc... in this case) means painstakingly creating detailed tests describing every possible scenario based on experimenting in targetted environment.

Mouka - bears similarity to Mocha (describe and it) but instead of detailing tests with asserts Mouka lets you return values and outputs from tests executed in main environment (Npde), export them to a "What the output should be like" file and then compare it against tests executed in secondary environment (UWP, Browser and whatnot).

TL;DR: Compare outputs of two environments (Node vs Web or UWP) instead of writing convoluted asserts.