Assert – the simplest testing methodology

Node has a useful testing tool built in the assert module. It's not any kind of testing framework, but simply a tool that can be used to write test code by making assertions of things which must be true or false at a given location.

The assert module has several methods which provide various ways of asserting conditions that must be true if the code is properly functioning.

The following is an example of using assert for testing, which you should put in the file test-deleteFile.js:

var fs = require('fs');
var assert = require('assert');
var df = require('./deleteFile');
df.deleteFile("no-such-file", function(err) {
    assert.throws(
        function() { if (err) throw err; },
        function(error) {
            if ((error instanceof Error)
             && /does not exist/.test(error)) {
               return true;
            } else return false;
        },
        "unexpected error"
    );
});

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