Utilisation des comparateurs

Jest utilise des « comparateurs » (NdT « matchers ») pour vous permettre de tester des valeurs de différentes manières. Ce document présente quelques comparateurs couramment utilisés. For the full list, see the expect API doc.

Comparateurs courants

La façon la plus simple de tester une valeur est de garantir une égalité exacte.

test('two plus two is four', () => {
  expect(2 + 2).toBe(4);
});

In this code, expect(2 + 2) returns an "expectation" object. En règle générale, vous ne ferez pas grand-chose avec ces objets d'attente, si ce n'est appeler des comparateurs sur ces mêmes objets. In this code, .toBe(4) is the matcher. Lorsque Jest s'exécute, il repère toutes les comparateurs qui échouent afin de vous afficher de jolis messages d'erreur.

toBe uses Object.is to test exact equality. If you want to check the value of an object, use toEqual:

test('object assignment', () => {
  const data = {one: 1};
  data['two'] = 2;
  expect(data).toEqual({one: 1, two: 2});
});

toEqual recursively checks every field of an object or array.

astuce

toEqual ignores object keys with undefined properties, undefined array items, array sparseness, or object type mismatch. To take these into account use toStrictEqual instead.

You can also test for the opposite of a matcher using not:

test('adding positive numbers is not zero', () => {
  for (let a = 1; a < 10; a++) {
    for (let b = 1; b < 10; b++) {
      expect(a + b).not.toBe(0);
    }
  }
});

Valeur de vérité

In tests, you sometimes need to distinguish between undefined, null, and false, but you sometimes do not want to treat these differently. Jest dispose d'outils qui vous permettent d'être plus précis sur ce que vous voulez.

• toBeNull matches only null
• toBeUndefined matches only undefined
• toBeDefined is the opposite of toBeUndefined
• toBeTruthy matches anything that an if statement treats as true
• toBeFalsy matches anything that an if statement treats as false

Par exemple :

test('null', () => {
  const n = null;
  expect(n).toBeNull();
  expect(n).toBeDefined();
  expect(n).not.toBeUndefined();
  expect(n).not.toBeTruthy();
  expect(n).toBeFalsy();
});

test('zero', () => {
  const z = 0;
  expect(z).not.toBeNull();
  expect(z).toBeDefined();
  expect(z).not.toBeUndefined();
  expect(z).not.toBeTruthy();
  expect(z).toBeFalsy();
});

Vous devez utiliser le comparateur qui correspond le plus précisément à ce que vous voulez que votre code fasse.

Nombres

La plupart des méthodes de comparaison de nombres ont des comparateurs équivalents.

test('two plus two', () => {
  const value = 2 + 2;
  expect(value).toBeGreaterThan(3);
  expect(value).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(3.5);
  expect(value).toBeLessThan(5);
  expect(value).toBeLessThanOrEqual(4.5);

  // toBe and toEqual are equivalent for numbers
  expect(value).toBe(4);
  expect(value).toEqual(4);
});

For floating point equality, use toBeCloseTo instead of toEqual, because you don't want a test to depend on a tiny rounding error.

test('adding floating point numbers', () => {
  const value = 0.1 + 0.2;
  //expect(value).toBe(0.3);           This won't work because of rounding error
  expect(value).toBeCloseTo(0.3); // This works.
});

Chaines de caractères (Strings)

You can check strings against regular expressions with toMatch:

test('there is no I in team', () => {
  expect('team').not.toMatch(/I/);
});

test('but there is a "stop" in Christoph', () => {
  expect('Christoph').toMatch(/stop/);
});

Tableaux et itérables

You can check if an array or iterable contains a particular item using toContain:

const shoppingList = [
  'diapers',
  'kleenex',
  'trash bags',
  'paper towels',
  'milk',
];

test('the shopping list has milk on it', () => {
  expect(shoppingList).toContain('milk');
  expect(new Set(shoppingList)).toContain('milk');
});

Exceptions

If you want to test whether a particular function throws an error when it's called, use toThrow.

function compileAndroidCode() {
  throw new Error('you are using the wrong JDK!');
}

test('compiling android goes as expected', () => {
  expect(() => compileAndroidCode()).toThrow();
  expect(() => compileAndroidCode()).toThrow(Error);

  // You can also use a string that must be contained in the error message or a regexp
  expect(() => compileAndroidCode()).toThrow('you are using the wrong JDK');
  expect(() => compileAndroidCode()).toThrow(/JDK/);

  // Or you can match an exact error message using a regexp like below
  expect(() => compileAndroidCode()).toThrow(/^you are using the wrong JDK$/); // Test fails
  expect(() => compileAndroidCode()).toThrow(/^you are using the wrong JDK!$/); // Test pass
});

astuce

The function that throws an exception needs to be invoked within a wrapping function otherwise the toThrow assertion will fail.

Et bien plus encore

Ce n'est qu'un avant-goût. For a complete list of matchers, check out the reference docs.

Once you've learned about the matchers that are available, a good next step is to check out how Jest lets you test asynchronous code.