visionmedia/supertest — pull request #157 by ultrasaurus (2014-08-14 17:19:26+00:00)
Title: need to require('../app') for supertest to work

see details here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25300204/how-do-i-set-up-express-with-mocha-and-supertest-for-integration-testing
I made the simplest possible example with supertest and express here: https://github.com/ultrasaurus/test-first-express/tree/supertest-1
updating README with the change that I had to make to my code. If this is not the recommended path, please let me know what is.