Finding it very difficult to engage with this course...

I am struggling too currently.

In fairness, while I understand the concept of testing and the language of the methods seem straight forward (e.g. expect() and to.be.true) this is my first ever practice. Rather than being able to focus on just the syntax, it's a different approach to developing and I'm trying to understand the logic of building a battleship game too! For me, at this stage, it feels like too many unknowns.

I knew how to write up the 'describe' section and link it to the fire function in ship_methods.js but it was the logic of the task that I didn't know what I needed to do. Here were my thoughts:

• it('should show both functions fired') - first guess
• it('should show checkforShip fired') then damageShip - as should be independent

Then wondered how this worked at all as the words 'unit' and 'independent' stuck in my mind from the lessons. You don't want overlap for a 'unit test' but this is an overlap?!

As Guil begins the answer it feels that you give an example and see it run all the way through. Currently, in my mind, that sounds like 'integration testing' that was said to be explicitly different.

I will chalk this up as a good first run through that I can refer back to later. Personally, I have used a few projects now that used npm scripts and was pleased to be more comfortable with that.

I found this all very difficult at first. But then I took a pause for 2 hours during this clip and just wrote my own functions and tested all kind of super easy things. I just wanted it all to be simple and see what is in the provided Chai BDD API Documentation. Very time consuming for sure. Then I went back to this task and it all clicked in my head.