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Exclude node_modules folder from test discovery/execution

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, node.js
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Locate the test discovery and execution entry points in the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio codebase, then trace how directory traversal handles node_modules. Add coverage for a project containing node_modules and verify that tests there are omitted from discovery and execution.

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Description

Currently tests discovery will go through the entire directory including node_modules to find tests. In most cases this is probably not the intended behavior that the user would expect. We should omit the node_modules directory for test discovery.

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