Server-side unit testing

In the previous example, we saw a way to start and run our test in Mocha. Server-side testing is important, because it helps you to know your code quality, speed, services request, and response time.

Implementing the web server

For a server-side support, we need to implement an HTTP server, which will serve our requests. Follow the points here to add a web server in our application:

1. Create a subdirectory called app with an index.html file inside. Leave the index.html file blank as of now.

2. Create a file inside the test directory named testMyapp.js.

3. Create a file app.js to add our application code. The serverside-testing application directory structure will now look like this:

   

4. Before we write any production code, let's write a test that shows your server running status in testMyapp.js. First, we need to load the following modules that we need in our tests:

   var assert = require("chai").assert;
   var http   = require("http");

   Note

   The http module: with the help of this module requests...