expectations

where less is more

expectations is a minimalist's testing framework

simply require expectations and your tests will be run on JVM shutdown.
what you are testing is inferred from the expected and actual types
stacktraces are trimmed of clojure library lines and java.lang lines
focused error & failure messages

Credit

Expectations is based on clojure.test. clojure.test is distributed under the Eclipse license, with ownership assigned to Rich Hickey.

Installing

The easiest way to use expectations in your own projects is via Leiningen. Add the following dependency to your project.clj file:

[expectations "1.2.1"] ; clojure 1.2
[expectations "1.4.3"] ; clojure 1.3

To build expectations from source, run the following commands:

lein deps
lein jar

Getting Started

By default the tests run on JVM shutdown, so all you need to do is run your clj file and you should see the expectations output.

You can test that everything is working correctly by using expectations in a simple test.

(ns simple.test
  (:use expectations))

(expect nil? nil)

(assuming you've put your dependencies in a (relatively pathed) lib dir)

Running your clj should be similar to: java -cp "lib/*" clojure.main -i /path/to/your/simple/test.clj

At this point you should see output similar to:

Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions in 5 msecs
0 failures, 0 errors.

You can run the examples in expectations with: java -cp "lib/*" clojure.main -i /path/to/expectations/test/clojure/success/success_examples.clj

You can also run expectations using lein if you install lein-expectations. Use lein-autoexpect to automatically run when your Clojure source changes.

You're now ready to start using expectations as you see fit. There's not a ton of syntax; however, you'll probably want to take a quick look at the various ways you can write expectations.

Colorizing

By default, expectations uses ansi escape codes to color output on non-windows environments. expectations also respects a EXPECTATIONS_COLORIZE environment variable - set the var to false if you'd like to turn off colorizing. more info

Success Examples

using 'expect', 'given' and 'expanding'

using 'scenario' and 'stubbing'

Detailed Examples with Discussion

Unit Testing Examples - Part One (Introduction)

Unit Testing Examples - Part Two (Non-Equality)

Unit Testing Examples - Part Three (Using Values)

Unit Testing Examples - Part Four (Testing Double/NaN)

Unit Testing Examples - Part Five (Removing Duplication with 'given')

Unit Testing Examples - Part Six (Wrap Up)

Scenario Testing Examples

Freezing Joda Time

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