This makes node Test Anything Protocol test runner output nicely readable, like so:
To use it, simply npm install tap-prettify and then use the
tap-prettify executable instead of tap to run your tests.
Here's the help documentation for tap-prettify:
Usage:
tap-prettify <options> <files>
Run the files as tap tests, parse the output, and report the results
nicely.
If the only file provided is -, this program will prettify the tap stream
from stdin.
Options:
--stderr Print standard error output of tests to standard error.
--gc Expose the garbage collector to tests.
--timeout Maximum time to wait for a subtest, in seconds. Default: 30
--version Print the version of node tap-prettify.
--help Print this help.
See the tap README for more guidance on how to use tap to write tests.
Finally, the tap-prettify module inherits everything from the tap
module, so you can use it as a substitute if needed.
Limitations
Unfortunately, the tap specification is rather barebones; for
example, it doesn't have a concept of testing multiple files. Because of
this, while I originally set out to make tap-prettify a tap consumer
that could read from any tap stream—regardless of whether it was
generated by node-tap in particular—I ended up having to couple the
program fairly tightly to node-tap's specific tap stream format in
order to generate the most useful output.