How can Meteor apps be tested?

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What are the recommended ways to test web applications developed with the meteor framework?

The meteor unofficial FAQ entry on TDD best practices is quite short.

Testing a Javascript framework is considered "off topic"?! Who would have thought... — Daniel Rikowski, Dec 17 '12 at 17:00
Checkout laika - http://arunoda.github.io/laika/ it is based on mocha and you can do end to end testing much easier. — Arunoda Susiripala, May 26 '13 at 14:01
See also [Meteor test-driven development](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12987525/meteor-test-driven-development) — Dan Dascalescu, Feb 17 '14 at 12:18

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '12 at 14:49

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Sebastian Maier has a repository where he created a meteor app and tests it with Jasmine. You could check it out, here's a link.

answered Dec 17 '12 at 14:49

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[Velocity](http://stackoverflow.com/a/26523192/1269037), Meteor's official testing framework, was just released. – Dan Dascalescu Oct 23 '14 at 07:30

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '12 at 23:48

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The Meteor documentation is woefully and/or intentionally silent on the subject of testing, other than this one quote:

Great care has been taken to give the core Meteor packages the minimal set of dependencies, so you can use your favorite templating, testing, or DOM manipulation frameworks.

So I guess you're free to test however you like, which is supposed to be a feature.

There are a number of fine testing tools that would be applicable to a Meteor webapp, Mocha being one example.

answered May 02 '12 at 23:48

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I would love to see a continuously running unit testing framework which updates as you edit, just the meteor way of coding and effecting. – Qichao Dong Oct 15 '12 at 06:56
[Velocity](http://stackoverflow.com/a/26523192/1269037), Meteor's official testing framework, was just released. – Dan Dascalescu Oct 23 '14 at 07:31

Dan Dascalescu · Answer 3 · 2014-10-23T07:40:20.353

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With v0.9.4, released Oct 13, 2014, Meteor has an official test framework, meteor-velocity. It supports Jasmine, Mocha and Selenium.

meteor run --test

The architect behind Velocity has published a book, Meteor Testing.

How can Meteor apps be tested?

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