Doesn't work with mocha test watching

[domharrington]

Create a test file:

var assert = require('assert');
var testData = require('mocha-testdata');

describe('My test suite', function() {
  testData([1, 2, 3], [3, 2, 1]).test('sum to 6', function(a, b, c) {
    assert.strictEqual(a + b + c, 6);
  });
});

Run this with mocha's -w option.

mocha test.js -w

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2 passing (3ms)

Touch the test file whilst watching: touch test.js.
Expected result: run both of the tests again, as above.
Actual result:

0 passing (0ms)

The tests don't get picked up again on the second pass. Do you know why this is? I haven't looked at the code for it in mocha or in this module. Have you come across this before?

Thanks

[jgoz]

Honestly, I didn't know mocha had a watch mode. Will investigate.

[billbogaiv]

@domharrington @jgoz I too have encountered this problem and use a similar pattern to this.