32 Better Workspace Testing

Goals

Create better testing harness for Dendron workspalce inside plugin-core

Context

We are currently making a few changes in both how our workspaces are initialized (eg. 31 Native Workspace) as well as testing (eg. BDD light). This means it's a good tiem to re-visit how we setup workspaces for testing so that it is performant and functional going forward

Proposal

• Update plugin tests to be able to test in code workspace

  • NOTE: this will be a big undertaking, recommend doing this incrementally

    • initially, create a test harness that can easily run native workspace test
    • slowly migrate existing tests to new test harness on a week by week/just in time basis

  • should be written according to BDD style

    suite("GIVEN Native Workspace", () => {
        describe("WHEN initialized with a single vault", () => {
            describe("AND WHEN a link is copied", () => {
                test("THEN return the copied link", () => {
                    runWithWorkspace({type: NATIVE,  ..., onInit: () => {
    
                    }});
                });
            });
        });
    });
    

Details

Example

Tradeoffs

Discussion

https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/discussions/1394