It's now time to turn our attention to the user authentication service. We've mentioned testing this service, saying that we'll get to them later. We developed a command-line tool for both administration and ad hoc testing. While that has been useful all along, it's time to get cracking with some real tests.
There's a question of which tool to use for testing the authentication service. Mocha does a good job of organizing a series of test cases, and we should reuse it here. But the thing we have to test is a REST service. The customer of this service, the Notes application, uses it through the REST API, giving us a perfect rationalization to test the REST interface rather than calling the functions directly. Our ad hoc scripts used the SuperAgent library to simplify making REST API calls. There happens to be a companion library, SuperTest, that is meant for REST API testing. It's easy to use that library within a Mocha test suite...
