I'm having a problem with my test, when I run them I'm getting error

Question

I'm having a problem with my test, when I run them I'm getting this error:

Contract: Electionn √ initializes with two candidates 1) it initializes the candidates with the correct values

No events were emitted

1 passing (89ms) 1 failing

1) Contract: Electionn it initializes the candidates with the correct values: ReferenceError: Election is not defined at Context. (test\\election.js:16:5) at C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\packages\\truffle-core\\lib\\testing\\testrunner.js:135:1 at C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\~\\web3\\lib\\web3\\property.js:119:1 at C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\~\\web3\\lib\\web3\\requestmanager.js:89:1 at C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\packages\\truffle-provider\\wrapper.js:134:1 at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\~\\web3\\lib\\web3\\httpprovider.js:128:1) at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\~\\xhr2\\lib\\xhr2.js:64:1) at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\~\\xhr2\\lib\\xhr2.js:354:1) at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpResponseEnd (C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack :\\~\\xhr2\\lib\\xhr2.js:509:1) at IncomingMessage. (C:\\Users\\HP\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\truffle\\build\\webpack:\\~\\xhr2\\lib\\xhr2.js:469:1) at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1064:12) at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)

and my test file is :

var Electionn = artifacts.require("./Electionn.sol");

contract("Electionn", function(accounts) {
  var electionInstance;

  it("initializes with two candidates", function() {
    return Electionn.deployed().then(function(instance) {
      return instance.candidatesCount();
    }).then(function(count) {
      assert.equal(count, 2);
    });
  });

  it("it initializes the candidates with the correct values", function() {
    return Election.deployed().then(function(instance) {
      electionInstance = instance;
      return electionInstance.candidates(1);
    }).then(function(candidate) {
      assert.equal(candidate[0], 1, "contains the correct id");
      assert.equal(candidate[1], "Candidate 1", "contains the correct name");
      assert.equal(candidate[2], 0, "contains the correct votes count");
      return electionInstance.candidates(2);
    }).then(function(candidate) {
      assert.equal(candidate[0], 2, "contains the correct id");
      assert.equal(candidate[1], "Candidate 2", "contains the correct name");
      assert.equal(candidate[2], 0, "contains the correct votes count");
    });
 });
});

I don't know how to solve it, thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You don't need to reference the deployed version of the contract for testing purposes...

Try initializing your contract instance before each test, and use a global variable to reference it.

 var electionnInstance; beforeEach(function() { return Electionn.new() .then(function(instance) { electionnInstance = instance; }); }); it("..."