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Creating JavaScript Unit Tests

PhpStorm integrates with most popular JavaScript unit testing frameworks and provides rich coding assistance for writing JavaScript unit tests. To get framework-aware coding assistance, download the desired framework, configure it as a PhpStorm JavaScript library.

To create JavaScript unit tests

  1. Create a separate folder for tests (File | New | Directory) next to the src folder. The name of this folder depends on the test framework you are using.
  2. On the Directories page, mark the new folder as a test folder, see Configuring Folders within a Content Root.
  3. For each production file, create a separate test file by choosing (File | New | JavaScript File on the context menu of the folder for tests. The format of the test file name depends on the test framework you are using.

Last modified: 28 November 2017

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