vitest-dev
Add support for generating tests by comment
Writing tests can be time consuming and may also not be very accessible or very easy to understand for everyone.
Something like
Advantages
- Everything in 1 file (code, unit test & documentation)
- Structured way of commenting
- Potentially it could even generate an interactive playground for documentation/manual testing
Disadvantages
- Perhaps not suitable for more complex unit tests
Inspired by
https://github.com/aaron-bond/better-comments
It would also be nice to have a test-generator utility, eg. something similar to what Jest or Playwright have: create scaffolding for the current function, class, module so I don't have to write everything from scratch. It should be easily template-able. In Visual Studio (not Code) you can right click when in the method and just say "Create Unit Test" which will create the test file for you and do a basic template. Saves a lot of time and helps code/test maintenance as everything is done in a consistent way.
I know the status is discussion but it already received 6 upvotes so it would at least make 6 people happy😉
Are there plans for supporting this? Any thoughts about the matter?
Good thing that you mentioned that. No, we are not planning to introduce any comment parsing feature in core: https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/issues/3035#issuecomment-2051246359
