6 Ways to Run Jest Test Cases Silently

A detailed guide on how to turn off console information

Among all types of tests, unit tests reside at the bottom of the Test Pyramid. Each unit test case verifies one specific point of the software logic, with a very narrow and well-defined scope. Since unit tests are nimble and fast, the number of unit tests should largely outnumber any other types of tests.

With a large amount of test cases, there might be a large amount of console information from the code, which you may not have control of.

The console object provides access to browsers’ debugging console. A number of methods are provided by the console object:

The most frequently-used feature of the console is logging information. The popular methods are:

• console.log(): Prints out a debug message to the console.
• console.debug(): An alias for console.log.
• console.info(): Prints out an information message to the console.
• console.warn(): Prints out a warning message to the console.
• console.error(): Prints out an error…