# Do you put tests outside the \`tests/\` folder?

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**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-put-tests-outside-the-tests-folder/6386 "2020-10-09T15:37:17Z")\
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Thank you for the first point, I did not know that glob was already used. As to the second point that was an error from my part - was looking at my angular code and added `*.spec.elm` automatically - in reality I’m using `ChiSquaredSpec.elm`

The angular style [documentation](https://angular.io/guide/styleguide#unit-test-file-names) rationalises the use of .spec suffix with:

- Provides a consistent way to quickly identify tests.
- Provides pattern matching for test runners

I also like to think of this tests as a sort of documentation - concretely for my modules this documents how some functions behave in edge cases -\> hence **spec** instead of test. (The ChiSquared module uses a distribution table - so it is useful to define what happens when a value is not found in the table and so on …)

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