vscode-test

This module helps you test VS Code extensions.

Supported:

• Node >= 8.x
• Windows >= Windows Server 2012+ / Win10+ (anything with Powershell >= 5.0)
• macOS
• Linux

Usage

See ./sample for a runnable sample, with Azure DevOps Pipelines and Travis CI configuration.

async function go() {
	try {
		const extensionDevelopmentPath = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../../')
		const extensionTestsPath = path.resolve(__dirname, './suite')

		/**
		 * Basic usage
		 */
		await runTests({
			extensionDevelopmentPath,
			extensionTestsPath
		})

		const extensionTestsPath2 = path.resolve(__dirname, './suite2')
		const testWorkspace = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../../test-fixtures/fixture1')

		/**
		 * Running another test suite on a specific workspace
		 */
		await runTests({
			extensionDevelopmentPath,
			extensionTestsPath: extensionTestsPath2,
			launchArgs: [testWorkspace]
		})

		/**
		 * Use 1.36.1 release for testing
		 */
		await runTests({
			version: '1.36.1',
			extensionDevelopmentPath,
			extensionTestsPath,
			launchArgs: [testWorkspace]
		})

		/**
		 * Use Insiders release for testing
		 */
		await runTests({
			version: 'insiders',
			extensionDevelopmentPath,
			extensionTestsPath,
			launchArgs: [testWorkspace]
		})

		/**
		 * Noop, since 1.36.1 already downloaded to .vscode-test/vscode-1.36.1
		 */
		await downloadAndUnzipVSCode('1.36.1')

		/**
		 * Manually download VS Code 1.35.0 release for testing.
		 */
		const vscodeExecutablePath = await downloadAndUnzipVSCode('1.35.0')
		await runTests({
			vscodeExecutablePath,
			extensionDevelopmentPath,
			extensionTestsPath,
			launchArgs: [testWorkspace]
		})

		/**
		 * Install Python extension
		 */
		const cliPath = resolveCliPathFromVSCodeExecutablePath(vscodeExecutablePath)
		cp.spawnSync(cliPath, ['--install-extension', 'ms-python.python'], {
			encoding: 'utf-8',
			stdio: 'inherit'
		})

		/**
		 * - Add additional launch flags for VS Code
		 * - Pass custom environment variables to test runner
		 */
		await runTests({
			vscodeExecutablePath,
			extensionDevelopmentPath,
			extensionTestsPath,
			launchArgs: [
				testWorkspace,
				// This disables all extensions except the one being testing
				'--disable-extensions'
			],
			// Custom environment variables for extension test script
			extensionTestsEnv: { foo: 'bar' }
		})

		/**
		 * Use win64 instead of win32 for testing Windows
		 */
		if (process.platform === 'win32') {
			await runTests({
				extensionDevelopmentPath,
				extensionTestsPath,
				version: '1.40.0',
				platform: 'win32-x64-archive'
			});
		}

	} catch (err) {
		console.error('Failed to run tests')
		process.exit(1)
	}
}

go()

License

MIT

Contributing

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