Truffle - Is There Any Way to Auto Generate Test Cases?

Question

Is there any way to auto-generate test-cases in Truffle?

As an example, the AutoFixture Library was helping me to auto-generate test-cases in xUnit. I'm looking for a similar functionality.

Answer 1

Looking at Truffle's tests it seems like it uses mocha for defining tests and chai for checking that things are OK. This is a pretty common setup in JavaScript land. It might not even be mandated, but it's a good start.

This allows you to build tests like:

describe('My tests', () => {
  for (const testCase of TEST_CASES) {
     it(`also works for ${testCase.name}`, () => {
        // check something about testCase
     });
  }
});

You can have arbitrarily many nestings of describe, building a tree-structure of tests. With auto-generation via the language's own features (for loops, while loops etc) you get a very powerful way of getting a lot of tests at once.