Advanced Express Web Application Development

Feature: Heartbeat

As an administrator
I want to visit an endpoint
So that I can confirm the server is responding

Let's add a test to ./test/heartbeat.js for our Heartbeat feature. This resource will get a status from the route /heartbeat and return a 200 Ok status code. Let's write our first integration test using Mocha and SuperTest. First off, create a folder named /test inside your vision folder.

Our test describes heartbeat; it expects the response to have a JSON content type and a status code equal to 200 Ok.

var app = require('../app') , request = require('supertest'); describe('vision heartbeat api', function(){ describe('when requesting resource /heartbeat', function(){ it('should respond with 200', function(done){ request(app) .get('/heartbeat') ...