clojure.test.generative

Test data generation and execution harness. Very early days. This API will change. You have been warned.

Releases and Dependency Information

Latest stable release: 0.1.4

Leiningen dependency information:

[org.clojure/test.generative "0.1.4"]

Maven dependency information:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
  <artifactId>test.generative</artifactId>
  <version>0.1.4</version>
</dependency>

Example Usages

A defspec consists of a name, a function to be tested, an input spec, and a validator:

(defspec integers-closed-over-addition
  (fn [a b] (+' a b))                    ;; input fn
  [^long a ^long b]                     ;; input spec
  (assert (integer? %)))                ;; 0 or more validator forms

To generate test data, see the fns in the generators namespace. Note that these functions shadow a bunch of clojure.core names.

You can run clojure.test and clojure.test.generative tests together from the c.t.g. runner:

(require '[clojure.test.generative.runner :as runner])
(runner/-main "src/test/clojure" "src/examples/clojure")

Assertion support is currently minimal. There is an is macro, similar to clojure.test's, that provides rudimentaty contextual reporting. You can also use plain assertions, or clojure.test validation forms such as is and are, or any other forms that throw exception on failure. No contextual reporting for these yet.

You can configure the runner with Java system properties:

Java Property	Interpretation
clojure.test.generative.threads	Number of concurrent threads
clojure.test.generative.msec	Desired test run duration
clojure.test.generative.handlers	Comma-delimited list of handlers

The default handler prints test run to stdout, but others could e.g. put test events in a database.

Developer Information

Change Log

Release 0.1.5 (in development)
- Can now run tests under clojure.test
- Tests produce data events that can be consumed by arbitrary reporting tools
- Example reporting integration with logback.
- Added is macro with more detailed reporting than clojure.test/is
- Removed collection based input generators. Input generators must be fns.
- Removed duplicate input check. Tests can be called multiple times with same input.
Release 0.1.4 on 2012.01.03
- Initial version

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