Support .mocharc Files

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, node.js, typescript
Domain
developer-experience, testing-qa

Research direction

Start by locating the VS test adapter code that explicitly reads JavaScript files and the path used to invoke Mocha. Check how Mocha configuration is currently discovered, then define completion as supporting .mocharc files so configured test and loader options are passed through and the expected tests are returned.

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Description

Feature Request: Support .mocharc files for discovering and running tests

Description: Mocha supports running tests directly from typescript files with the ts-node package. This is a really neat feature for developers since it eliminates the need to transpile tests before running the tests. However, the VS test adapter explicitly reads js files and passes those to mocha to determine what tests are available.

It would be great if the test adapter could read any mocharc file to determine what files to load and how to load them so that mocha can return the tests that can be executed.

Thanks!

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