How to register a failed Mocha test on a Promise

Question

I am writing Javascript Mocha unit tests on code that returns promises. I am using the Chai as Promised library. I expect the following minimal unit test to fail.

var chai = require("chai");
var chaiAsPromised = require("chai-as-promised");
chai.use(chaiAsPromised);
chai.should();

var Promise = require("bluebird");

describe('2+2', function () {
    var four = Promise.resolve(2 + 2);
    it('should equal 5', function () {
        four.should.eventually.equal(5);
    })
});

When I run this test, I see an assertion error printed to the console, but the test still counts as passing.

> mocha test/spec.js 


  2+2
    ✓ should equal 5 
Unhandled rejection AssertionError: expected 4 to equal 5


  1 passing (10ms)

How do I write this test so that a failed assertion causes the test to count as a failure?

Answer 1

For anybody else having trouble with failed assertions not failing unit tests with promises, I learned that you should NOT pass done to the function. Instead, just return the promise:

it('should handle promises', function(/*no done here*/) {

    return promiseFunction().then(function(data) {
        // Add your assertions here
    });

    // No need to catch anything in the latest version of Mocha;
    // Mocha knows how to handle promises and will see it rejected on failure

});

This article pointed me in the right direction. Good luck!

Answer 2

I needed to return the result of assertion. This test fails as expected.

    it('should equal 5', function () {
        return four.should.eventually.equal(5);
    })