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+'use strict';
+
+require('../common');
+
+// This test ensures that the BrotliCompress function throws
+// ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE when the values of the `params` key-value object are
+// neither numbers nor booleans.
+
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { BrotliCompress, constants } = require('zlib');
+
+const opts = {
+  params: {
+    [constants.BROTLI_PARAM_MODE]: 'lol'
+  }
+};
+
+assert.throws(() => BrotliCompress(opts), {
+  code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE'
+});