Ignore fixtures and helpers

[vadimdemedes]

How about ignoring by default fixtures and helpers directories, so that we don't force _ prefixes on people?

[sindresorhus]

👍

[sotojuan]

Would this just mean adding something related to those directories here? If so I can work on this during my flight.

[sindresorhus]

@sotojuan Yes, and needs to be documented.

[gajus]

How to make an exception? (disable this behaviour)

[vadimdemedes]

@gajus Why would you want to disable it?

[gajus]

Because I want to structure my test folder hierarchy to mirror the project hierarchy. My project has folder helpers that I want to test.

[novemberborn]

@gajus we need some changes to our globbing to make this happen. See #736 and #736 (comment).

[gajus]

It is a bit arrogant of "ava" to assume that "helpers" is a folder that will be used exclusively by the test runner. Instead of changing the globbing pattern, change the folder name to "avahelpers".

[novemberborn]

One could argue the same for assuming test/*.js folders contain AVA tests. We think it's a good default, and there is an open issue that would make it possible for the test/helpers folder to not be treated as containing helpers.