`node --test ./tests/*.js` has inconsistent behaviors in unix and windows

[hyfdev]

Version

v18.16.0

Platform

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22621.0 x64

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. Clone https://github.com/hyf0/starter-libesm
2. Run pnpm test:defult or node --test ./tests/*.js both on unix and windows

Unix output

> starter-libesm@0.0.1 test /home/runner/work/starter-libesm/starter-libesm
> node --test ./tests/*.js

TAP version 13
# Subtest: /home/runner/work/starter-libesm/starter-libesm/tests/index.js
ok 1 - /home/runner/work/starter-libesm/starter-libesm/tests/index.js
  ---
  duration_ms: [8](https://github.com/hyf0/starter-libesm/actions/runs/4885416970/jobs/8719448063#step:7:9)0.4[17](https://github.com/hyf0/starter-libesm/actions/runs/4885416970/jobs/8719448063#step:7:18)502
  ...
1..1
# tests 1
# pass 1
# fail 0
# cancelled 0
# skipped 0
# todo 0
# duration_ms 85.08817

windows output

Run pnpm test

> starter-libesm@0.0.1 test D:\a\starter-libesm\starter-libesm
> node --test ./tests/*.js

Could not find 'D:\a\starter-libesm\starter-libesm\tests\*.js'
 ELIFECYCLE  Test failed. See above for more details.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Using node --test .\\tests\\*.js on windows also fails.

output:

Could not find 'C:\Users\xxx\Documents\GitHub\starter-libesm\tests\*.js'

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

No response

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

No response

What do you see instead?

See above.

Additional information

No response

[cjihrig]

The pattern passed after --test is evaluated by the shell, not by Node.js, which is why you're seeing differences between Unix and Windows. There is work in progress to support passing globs to the test runner, which you can follow in #47653. I'm going to close this as working as expected.