I'm surprised "test groups" (not sure what the proper name is, I'm talking about `context` in `FunSp...

# kotest

[CLOVIS]

I'm surprised "test groups" (not sure what the proper name is, I'm talking about context in FunSpec) are suspend . I thought JS only allowed proper tests to be asynchronous, not test groups? How is it implemented?

[sam]

In JS tests you can't use them, it will throw an error, for exactly the reasons you describe

[sam]

kotest DSL was designed before multiplatform existed, in hindsight if I was doing it again I wouldn't make the top level ones suspend

[sam]

but that ship has sailed

[CLOVIS]

Ah, well, that's a shame 😅

[CLOVIS]

I have a prototype library which is able to handle nested tests on JS, but even then they don't really display properly in reports

[sam]

Yeah, we'd have to change a lot of things. But the framework gives you a very clear message if you try to use them that you have to stick to top level tests in JS.

[CLOVIS]

How does the framework report test info to Gradle and other tools?

From what I can gather:
• JVM: regular JUnit declarations
• JS: ?
• Native: ?

[CLOVIS]

I would assume it uses kotlin-test under the hood for JS? But the output for Native looks very different to me, is it custom?

[sam]

for JS it uses karma or whatever, in the same manner kotlin-test does (by delegating to the methods in the underlying test fraemwork)