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Tests are not specified for npm packages

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Start by inspecting the package's npm test script and the missing test/.js path shown in the issue, then run npm test to reproduce the failure. Done means the package has specified tests and npm test no longer fails because test/.js cannot be found.

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Description

[root]# npm test

tty-browserify@0.0.1 test /root/apic/tty-browserify
tape test/*.js

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module '/root/apic/tty-browserify/test/*.js'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
at /root/apic/tty-browserify/node_modules/tape/bin/tape:5:5
at Array.forEach ()
at Object. (/root/apic/tty-browserify/node_modules/tape/bin/tape:4:23)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
npm ERR! Test failed. See above for more details.

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