What's the best path to implement custom testing s...

# javascript

[Edoardo Luppi]

What's the best path to implement custom testing support for K/JS?
I've seen KGP uses a combination of KotlinTest and KotlinJsTestFramework. Is extending those base classes the way?

[CLOVIS]

What do you mean by custom testing?

[Edoardo Luppi]

Spawning a process that is not driven by Node.js.

[CLOVIS]

Do you want to spawn that process from Gradle itself? What is that process for?

[Edoardo Luppi]

In the context of what I'm doing, that is trying to integrate VS Code development, testing is performed by invoking the main VS Code executable and passing in the entry point JS script.
So the custom test task cannot use Node.js.

[CLOVIS]

val yourCustomTestTask by tasks.registering(Exec::class) {
    workingDir.set("…")
    commandLine.set("…")
}

tasks.check {
    dependsOn(yourCustomTestTask)
}

https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.Exec.html

[Edoardo Luppi]

I already do that, but having a proper test task (extending from AbstractTestTask) is better

[Edoardo Luppi]

I suppose KotlinTest integrates with Gradle too

[Edoardo Luppi]

@Adam S is this what you want to do?

[Adam S]

yes! Let's continue in the other thread