Parse-server: How to make Unit Testing inside Parse Server

[ghost]

How we can make unit testing with Parse, in each Cloud Code Function I have multiples query it is difficult to test actually,

How we can make unit test with Parse Query ?

[acinader]

My suggestion is to take a look at how unit testing is done on the parse-server repo itself.

https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/master/package.json#L75

is the command that runs the tests. Which looks complicated, but basically its just invoking jasmine.

The jasmine config: https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/master/spec/support/jasmine.json

The helper.js that sets up and tears down the database and the parse-server:

https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/master/spec/helper.js

the helper has a lot of legacy code in it.

And finally, here's an example of a test of cloud code:

https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/master/spec/CloudCode.spec.js#L79

[flovilmart]

There is also this test runner that we wrote:

https://github.com/AmpMe/parse-server-test-runner

It will connect to a local database and you can cleanup data at will.

[acinader]

look at that! nice.

[flovilmart]

We use it extensively for everything, that's very nice to test e2e cloud functions etc...

[ghost]

Thank you for you answer, I'll take a look at this

[ZacharyKhan]

Just came across this, very interesting! How would I implement something like the Parse-Server-test-runner?

If I’m able to grasp it and get it working, I’d love to contribute to the README or WIKI with instructions for others to use this. I think it’s super useful!

EDIT: I see there’s an example in the Repo for the test runner. I’m not familiar with the language as I write in Swift mostly, but I will play with this and see how far I can get using the example provided.

[flovilmart]

Open an issue on the test runner if you need an example :)