Nyan Cat Reporter Plus for Mocha

Make unit testing fun. Plays the (in-)famous Nyan cat song while running through your tests. But you need to feed Nyan cat tests. Otherwise it is going to fly off.

Features

• Play the actual Nyan cat song!
• Delay console outputs because they make Nyan cat sad.
• Fix rainbowification (e.g. on Windows <10).

Install

npm install nyanPlusReporter --save-dev

Use

Append, or add to your mocha.opts either

--reporter nyanPlusReporter

or

--reporter path/to/file.without js extension and relative to project root (e.g. "node_modules/nyanPlusReporter/src/nyanPlus")

depending on whether you have installed Mocha locally or globally (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21367820/how-to-create-a-custom-reporter-with-mocha).

Notes

• You need to have a couple of tests in order to hear anything. That is a feature motivating you to add more tests.

• The package uses "node-wav-player" because it is cross-platform out of the box.

• The unit tests use the default reporter in order to avoid audio playback interference.

• Tested on Win7, Win10, Mac OSX (vm), Debian (vm), Fedora (vm)

Bugs, limitations, caveats, etc

• Possibly jelous co-workers who do not have as much fun as you do.

• Possibly annoyed co-workers if you, or they, are in lack of ear phones.

• There is a ~5MB .wav file.

• When the song repeats after 26sec there is a noticable interruption.

• Feature or not, on my Win7 (i5, 8GB) test system, the wav-player needs some time to spin up. The very first run may take some seconds. Consecutive runs may take up to 2 seconds. The wav-player module is only a middle man calling native audio players. So, I am not sure it can be sped up. It gets way better on an i7 with 16GB though.

Versions

0.10.4

• Added: more error checking

0.10.3

• Changed: Fix in dependency allows to test playback on Win7 now.

0.10.2

• Fixed: Published branch to NPM instead of master (I am new to this, sorry.)

0.10.1

• Added: Ctrl-c flushes console buffer

0.9.1

• Fixed: Broke the reference instead of emptying it in console flush.
• Fixed: Added missing assertion.

0.9.0

• Public release.

Copyright

MIT (c) Joe Kerr 2018

The Nyan Cat song is free for non-commercial use (https://aidn.jp/about/ | accessed 25-Sep-2018).

The license of this package does not include the Nyan Cat song.