avajs/ava
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22 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 9 stories, 13 comments · first 2015-08-28 · latest 2026-08-18
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…not only finds order-dependent issues, but also race condition and other timing related issues. https://github.com/avajs/ava
comment by sholladay · 2026-08-18 · in Composable Tests -
…muddy. In contrast to that, other test runners like AVA have a clear description what happens when: https://github.com/avajs/ava/blob/main/docs/01-writing-tests...
comment by Tade0 · 2023-10-09 · in Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle -
You might want to give ava a spin: https://github.com/avajs/ava/ It has a TAP reporter, but more importantly, as opposed to the more popular solutions, like Jest, the way it achieves parallelism is explained in the docs and won't change…
comment by Tade0 · 2023-05-21 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite software testing framework and why? -
…very feature limited and much of it's touted advantages are at the detriment to feature set. [1] https://github.com/avajs/ava [2] https://github.com/substack/tape [3] https://github.com/lukeed/uvu Jest is great for front-end (or full stack…
comment by andrew_ · 2021-12-17 · in Chaijs.com just let their domain expire -
I know a fella working on a Deno port of Ava ( https://github.com/avajs/ava ). When that and Koa are ported or compatible, I'll be giving Deno a legitimate go.
comment by andrew_ · 2021-05-12 · in Deno 1.10 Release Notes -
…because it did a few things better than Jest. But ended up switching away because of this issue: https://github.com/avajs/ava/issues/2385 Basically, if an assertion fails in the middle of an individual test, most test runners stop…
comment by cakoose · 2021-04-21 · in Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021 -
…using the existing build output, but I ran into another issue and had to switch back to Jest: https://github.com/avajs/ava/issues/2385 )
comment by cakoose · 2021-04-21 · in Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021 -
Ava ( https://github.com/avajs/ava ) gets too little love from the blogging machinery. It's a breeze to use with TS, faster than Jest (YMMV of course), and I love the snapshot output over any other snapshot producing unit test tool. Use…
comment by andrew_ · 2021-04-21 · in Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021 -
…for coverage. It only works in node so I have to use JSDOM to mimic the browser environment. 1: https://github.com/avajs/ava 2: https://github.com/bcoe/c8
comment by runarberg · 2020-06-21 · in A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot -
…Babel built in with the AVA[1] test runner and I can confirm `babel-require` is our bottleneck. [1] https://github.com/avajs/ava
comment by sotojuan · 2016-08-02 · in Huge no. of files for Angular 2 -
…author here. Just thought I'd mention that we are working on AVA and tape support in wallaby: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava/issues/141
comment by wallabyjs · 2015-11-26 · in Ava – Asynchronous test runner -
…so you only have to run the tests that was affected by code changes since the last run. See https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava/issues/115 for more. We're happy to receive issues if there's anything else that bothers you. We also have a…
comment by mofle · 2015-11-26 · in Ava – Asynchronous test runner -
There is an open issue regarding this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava/issues/115 In the meantime, there's Wallaby: http://wallabyjs.com/
comment by bookerio · 2015-11-25 · in Ava – Asynchronous test runner