Unit testing

[jonahsnider]

You can relatively easily have unit testing for API requests by using libraries like Sinon. I created a package very similar to this and it had unit testing for nearly every request variation, with around 90% test coverage.

The test code is open source, here's an example file that uses moxios, sinon, and TAP for botlist.space.

[PassTheMayo]

This sounds great, but wouldn't this require a test bot to be submitted to each list? Having a bot listed in every list sounds like something that would be difficult to maintain. I'll be cleaning up the code some more this weekend, and doing some manual testing.

[MattIPv4]

Just as food for thought on test lib, we use Mocha & Chai (chai-http) for testing BotBlock itself (web rendering & API).

[jonahsnider]

but wouldn't this require a test bot to be submitted to each list?

You misunderstood what I meant.

In your code, when you send a request to BotBlock, the request would be intercepted by a testing library (I used moxios) and allow you to compare the sent request to what should have been sent,.