Re: unit test framework

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

On 2010-03-18 15:56 , Lennart Borgman wrote:

>    elk-test: Nikolaj Schumacher

elk-test might look more complicated than it is.  Most of the code is 
for the user interface.  The testing framework itself is just a thin 
wrapper around Emacs' error signaling with better readability.

While
  (assert (equal "yy" foo))
causes
  (cl-assertion-failed (equal "yy" foo))
the macro
  (assert-equal "yy" foo)
will cause the more readable:
  (error "assert-equal for <foo> failed: expected <yy>, was <xx>")

`assert-that' can take care of the formatting for custom tests, and 
`assert-error' fails when a specific error isn't thrown.

The nice thing about these macros is that they work in any evaluation 
context.  I'd vote to include such macros at the least.

The
  (deftest "test name" ...
macro just provides an name anchor for running individual tests.  And 
the test runner will just catch errors and display them as text, 
highlight where the error occurred, and mark the buffer as "red".  This 
GUI is more designed for test-driven development than automatic 
regression tests, but the macros would work fine for that, I suppose.


kind regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher