Is there a way to run tests from project directory?

[Niakr1s]

Hello! Thanks for your extension!

I have a problem. I have test data in '{project_dir}/testdata' folder, and I want them to load it from filesystem in tests. But it seems that Test Explorer runs tests with cwd set to test file' directory.

For example, if I try to do this in file 'tests/foo/bar.test.js':

let raw = readFileSync('./testdata/raw.json', 'utf-8');

I'm getting cryptic window with message: 'The editor could not be opened because the file was not found.' Command 'node --test' from terminal, if I run it from project directory, works great though.

However, if I change filepath to relative:

let raw = readFileSync('../../testdata/raw.json', 'utf-8');

it works smoothly.

I made a small investigation: command process.cwd(), executed in a debug console, gets me directory of a test file. In comparison, same command when I run tests with jest, results in the project directory.

So, is it possible to fix it so that tests always run from project directory?

[Niakr1s]

Upd: I ended up in using pkg-dir module, it works good.

[connor4312]

Yea, I agree that tweaking this makes sense. I will probably have some "projectRoot" setting, defaulting to your workspace folder, that controls the cwd among other things (things that we naively root at the workspace folder today)

[Niakr1s]

That would've been great!

[techfg]

Great extension, thank you for your work!

Running in to this same issue - tests are all written assuming execution from projectRoot and fail when using test runner. Current workaround is:

settings.json

{
    "nodejs-testing.pretest": [
        "./test-prep.sh"
    ]
}

test-prep.sh

cd ..