Mocha Code Coverage Error - Failed to save lcovonly coverage

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Hi Everyone - I’m new to this community but I was hoping to get some help with a code coverage issue :slight_smile:

I’m trying to generate and save an LCOV report file from a mocha test suite for my server in my (non-Typescript) Meteor app. To enable this, I’ve added the lmieulet:meteor-coverage meteor package, the instanbul babel plugin, and a .coverage.json file.

I’ve also written an npm script (named “test-cov”) which includes the necessary env variables to run the test with coverage.

However, when I run “npm run test-cov”, all the tests pass but I keep getting the following error about the coverage file not saving:

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I’ve tried:

  • Switching between the absolute path for ‘output’ in coverage.json file and relative path (./.coverage)
  • Moving lmieulet:meteor-coverage package higher up in ./.meteor/packages folder
  • Adding TEST_BROWSER_DRIVER=chrome to the “test-cov” script and removing TEST_CLIENT=0 (even though we only have server tests anyway)

One complication may be that we also have a second testing suite (Jest), but I don’t believe that’s being invoked anywhere as a result of running “test-cov”

Does anyone have an idea of why this isn’t working? I’m at a loss about what to do, partly because the error message here is so brief…

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here’s my npm script:

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Here’s my babel config in package.json:

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coverage.json:

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config file built right after executing “npm run test-cov”:

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It might be a directory permission issue

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Yes, I had that thought too. But the permissions for the .coverage folder to write into are totally open:

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And the permissions for the root folder containing the project itself are also pretty open (drwxr-xr-x)

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Could still be a permissions issue since tests are run from a temporary directory with symlinks back to the source and other directories but I’m just guessing

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We downgraded meteor-coverage back to 3.2.0 to make it work. Here is a working example repo: GitHub - leaonline/leaonline-teacher: Teacher dashboard application for the lea-online platforms

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thanks for the suggestion - just tried it with 3.2.0 but it didn’t work. Another thought is that my meteor version is a bit old (1.11.1) - could that have something to do with it?

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It may be permissions… but we’ve tried to make sure the folder permissions are pretty open and also have tried running as sudo and neither seem to work

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Oh I didn’t know it’s that old. I think then you have also an older version of Meteor mocha?

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It looks like I have 1.1.2 for meteortesting:mocha:

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Can you try to upgrade to meteortesting:mocha@2.0?

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Just changed the versions in .meteor/packages and .meteor/versions to 2.0.1 and unfortunately it’s still giving same error

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For posterity’s sake: the problem was that nock was the coverage package’s ability to write the LCOV file once the testing was finished. If you’re using nock and experience a similar error, use nock.enableNetConnect() to fix