Dynamic testing with AVA

Question

I'm looking to run ava programmaticaly, so my script would be able to run some ava tests with a dynamic argument (an URL actually).

My goal is to run programmaticaly the same ava test file on a list of dynamic (from user-input) URL, and then, get back the output.

I know the ava api is a good starting point, but I can see that the official gulp-ava don't use this API, and the API usage is not clear to me.

So, TL;DR :

• How can I run an ava test file from my own nodejs script ?
• How can I pass a dynamic argument to an ava test file, from my script ?
• How can I get back the output from AVA ?

Thanks,

Tom

Answer 1

There is no official API you can use. The best approach would be to run AVA in a child process. The exit code will be 0 if tests pass.

Currently you can't pass command line arguments to the test workers. You should provide your URL through an environment variable.