I've never moved past tape, have had ava on the list of things to look into for a very long time but seem to always just `yarn add -D tape bogota` (bogota is a library that runs tape in parallel), any real concrete reasons to use ava over tape? the ava guide says this:
> Tape and tap are pretty good. AVA is highly inspired by their syntax. They too execute tests serially. Their default TAP output isn't very user-friendly though so you always end up using an external tap reporter.
Nicer looking test output and serial execution seem to be the issues here, but I actually like the serial execution bit because it lets you write some messier tests (some that re-use a local test DB let's say) before you straighten up and write shared-nothing test-suites that can run in isolation (spin up a DB container/make a db-per-test-suite/etc).
> Tape and tap are pretty good. AVA is highly inspired by their syntax. They too execute tests serially. Their default TAP output isn't very user-friendly though so you always end up using an external tap reporter.
Nicer looking test output and serial execution seem to be the issues here, but I actually like the serial execution bit because it lets you write some messier tests (some that re-use a local test DB let's say) before you straighten up and write shared-nothing test-suites that can run in isolation (spin up a DB container/make a db-per-test-suite/etc).