Yeah mocha + request are great for this kind of stuff. 

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On Jan 22, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Boris Egorov <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can pick `mocha` (http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/) or `vows` 
> (http://vowsjs.org/) to write your tests and mikeal's `request` 
> (https://github.com/mikeal/request) to perform actual http requests to your 
> API.
> 
> May be there are more specific tools for your problem, but you definitely can 
> solve your problem using modules I've mentioned.
> 
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:55 AM, John Rellis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey Folks,
>> 
>> New to nodejs so apologies if I offend anyone :)
>> 
>> Out of the gate, I am hoping to write a bunch of tests to test an external 
>> REST API.  This API is not written by me, I just have access to the 
>> endpoints.
>> 
>> I would like to write these tests in nodejs and launch them as a test suite 
>> and see how many passed/failed etc.
>> 
>> Each test would access the API and assert the data and the response received 
>> are as we would expect.
>> 
>> Any suggestions on how I should approach this??
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> John
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