jade task only prepares the "files" template var for templates in the unit test dir and ignores .jade files who's filename start with an underscore.

watch:test only watches the test's js files and runs the tests when they change.

tasks/config/jade.js

@@ -1,24 +1,34 @@
 module.exports = function (grunt) {
+  var path = require('path');
+
   return {
-    test: {
+    all: {
       src: [
-        '<%= unitTestDir %>/**/*.jade',
         '<%= app %>/partials/**/*.jade',
-        '<%= app %>/apps/**/*.jade'
+        '<%= app %>/apps/**/*.jade',
+        '<%= root %>/test/**/*.jade',
+        '!<%= root %>/**/_*.jade'
       ],
       expand: true,
       ext: '.html',
       options: {
         data: function (src, dest) {
-          var pattern = grunt.config.process('<%= unitTestDir %>/**/*.js');
-          var tests = grunt.file.expand({}, pattern).map(function (filename) {
-            return filename.replace(grunt.config.get('unitTestDir'), '');
-          });
-          return { tests: JSON.stringify(tests) };
+          var unitTestDir = grunt.config.get('unitTestDir');
+
+          // filter for non unit test related files
+          if (!~path.dirname(src).indexOf(unitTestDir)) return;
+
+          var pattern = unitTestDir + '/specs/**/*.js';
+          var appdir = grunt.config.get('app');
+
+          return {
+            tests: grunt.file.expand({}, pattern).map(function (filename) {
+              return path.relative(appdir, filename).replace(/\.js$/, '');
+            })
+          };
         },
         client: false
       }
     }
   };
-};
-
+};

tasks/config/jshint.js

@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ module.exports = function (config) {
     // just lint the source dir
     source: {
       files: {
-        src: ['Gruntfile.js', '<%= src %>/**/*.js', '<%= unitTestDir %>/**/*.js', '<%= root %>/tasks/**/*.js']
+        src: [
+          'Gruntfile.js',
+          '<%= src %>/**/*.js',
+          '<%= unitTestDir %>/**/*.js',
+          '<%= root %>/tasks/**/*.js'
+        ]
       }
     },
     options: {

tasks/config/mocha.js

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 module.exports = {
+  options: {
+    log: true,
+    logErrors: true,
+    run: false
+  },
   unit: {
     options: {
-      log: true,
-      logErrors: true,
       urls: [
-        'http://localhost:8001/'
-      ],
-      run: false
+        'http://localhost:8000/test/unit/'
+      ]
     }
   }
 };

tasks/config/watch.js

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 module.exports = function (grunt) {
   return {
     test: {
-      files: ['<%= unitTestDir %>/*.jade', '<%= unitTestDir %>/**/*.js'],
-      tasks: ['jade:test', 'mocha:unit']
+      files: ['<%= unitTestDir %>/**/*.js'],
+      tasks: ['mocha:unit']
     },
     less: {
       files: [
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
     },
     jade: {
       files: [
-        '<%= app %>/**/*.jade',
-        '<%= src %>/courier/**/*.jade',
-        '!<%= unitTestDir %>/**/*.jade'
+        '<%= root %>/**/*.jade',
+        '!<%= root %>/node_modules/**/*',
+        '!<%= src %>/bower_components/**/*'
       ],
       tasks: ['jade']
     }