freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/06-quality-assurance/quality-assurance-and-testing-with-chai/assert-deep-equality-with-.deepequal-and-.notdeepequal.md

id, title, challengeType, forumTopicId, dashedName

id	title	challengeType	forumTopicId	dashedName
587d824c367417b2b2512c4c	Assert Deep Equality with .deepEqual and .notDeepEqual	2	301587	assert-deep-equality-with--deepequal-and--notdeepequal

--description--

As a reminder, this project is being built upon the following starter project on Repl.it, or cloned from GitHub.

deepEqual() asserts that two objects are deep equal.

--instructions--

Within tests/1_unit-tests.js under the test labelled #7 in the Equality suite, change each assert to either assert.deepEqual or assert.notDeepEqual to make the test pass (should evaluate to true). Do not alter the arguments passed to the asserts.

--hints--

All tests should pass.

(getUserInput) =>
  $.get(getUserInput('url') + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=6').then(
    (data) => {
      assert.equal(data.state, 'passed');
    },
    (xhr) => {
      throw new Error(xhr.responseText);
    }
  );

You should choose the correct method for the first assertion - deepEqual vs. notDeepEqual.

(getUserInput) =>
  $.get(getUserInput('url') + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=6').then(
    (data) => {
      assert.equal(
        data.assertions[0].method,
        'deepEqual',
        'The order of the keys does not matter'
      );
    },
    (xhr) => {
      throw new Error(xhr.responseText);
    }
  );

You should choose the correct method for the second assertion - deepEqual vs. notDeepEqual.

(getUserInput) =>
  $.get(getUserInput('url') + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=6').then(
    (data) => {
      assert.equal(
        data.assertions[1].method,
        'notDeepEqual',
        'The position of elements within an array does matter'
      );
    },
    (xhr) => {
      throw new Error(xhr.responseText);
    }
  );

--solutions--

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