With mocha, how do I run all tests that *don't* have (slow) in the name?

Question

I have a load of tests, and some of them have "(slow)" in the name:

Some of them are slower than the tests marked (slow), but are relied on by other tests and so cannot be skipped. I would just like to skip the ones with (slow) in the name—is that possible?

I'm using Mocha.

Answer 1

It looks to me like you are doing it for a page you are loading in a browser to run Mocha. To do this in the browser you can pass these parameters in the URL of the page:

• grep which approximately corresponds to the --grep option on the command line. This narrows the tests run to those that match the expression passed to grep. However, there is currently (even as of 2.0.1) no way to get Mocha to interpret this parameter as a regular expression. It is always interpreted as a string. That's why I said "approximately corresponds". --grep on the command line is a regular expression but the grep parameter passed in a URL is a string.

• invert which correspond to the --invert option on the command line. This will invert the match performed by grep and thus selects the tests that grep does not match.

So if you open you page by appending the following string ?grep=(slow)&invert=1 it will run the tests that do not have the string "(slow)" in them.

Answer 2

You can do this with a combination of two command line switches. Here is the relevant part of the documentation:

-g, --grep <pattern> only run tests matching <pattern> -i, --invert inverts --grep matches

Answer 3

Grep accepts a regex pattern, you can do it like this:

mocha --grep '^(?!.*\\b\(slow\)\\b)'