No Trivial Assertions

Error

small-rules/no-trivial-assertions

Disallow assertions that always succeed or compare against freshly created values.

Diagnostic Messages

freshIdentity

Use `{{matcher}}` instead; freshly-created values are never identical to other values.

freshPredicate

Replace this assertion; the value is freshly created here, so the result is independent of the code under test.

issue

Replace this assertion; it always succeeds.

Configuration

This rule does not accept options.

{
  "jsPlugins": [
    "@pobammer-ts/small-rules"
  ],
  "rules": {
    "small-rules/no-trivial-assertions": "error"
  }
}

Examples

Constant always-true equality

expect(true).toBe(true);

Non-constant assertion

expect(result).toBe(true);