# Running a single test

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-single-test/46429
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [June 25, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-single-test/46429 "2016-06-25T00:52:23Z")
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### Author: ![markwingerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@markwingerd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markwingerd)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-single-test/46429/1 "2016-06-25T00:52:23Z")

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Hi,  
Is there a way to run a single JavaScript test file?  
Thanks

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### Author: ![markwingerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@markwingerd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markwingerd)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-single-test/46429/2 "2016-06-25T01:30:21Z")

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Additionally how to you run the javascript tests at all? It looks like bundle exec rake spec is only testing ruby files… Or at least, my javascript test that should have failed didn’t.

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-single-test/46429/3 "2016-06-25T02:21:00Z")

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Hi Mark Wingerd welcome to the forum

Looking for qunit?

> [@Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginner-s-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins-part-6-acceptance-tests/32619):
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> Previous tutorial: [Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-plugins-part-5-add-an-admin-interface/31761) Did you know that Discourse has two large test suites for its code base? On the server side, our Ruby code has a test suite that uses [rspec](https://rspec.info/). For the browser application, we have a [qunit](https://qunitjs.com/) suite that has [ember-testing](https://guides.emberjs.com/release/testing/testing-application/) included. Assuming you have a development environment set up, if you visit the http://localhost:3000/tests URL you will start running the JavaScript test suite in your browser. One fun aspect is that …