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7707 :: Testament documentation - test-case, test-step, setup, tearDown

• lhupfeldt (orginal) [2021-03-27T18:31:41+01:00] view original

  I'm trying to port one of my python packages to nim. The package uses pytest

  I'm really confused about testing in nim.

  The documentation for testament (at lest the one I've managed to find) is mostly about how to invoke it. Most searches just finds some issues and debate about testament vs unittest. Then there are some statements about the compiler itself using testament, so one can see examples there.

  I then took a look at tests/stdlib/tos.nim trying to figure out how to write testcases.

  • It seems to be just one huge test-case (a lot of test-points obviously)
  • Assuming the above is correct, will an error in any place in the file abort that file?
  • Is there no separation between prerequisites and test cases?
  • Is there any setup (prerequisite) support?
  • Is there any tear-down support?
  • Is there a way of having multiple test-cases in one file and executing only some, based on test name (is there any such thing?) and tags?
  • Is there a way of having test parametrisation?
  • Is the parallel execution by testament done per-file?

  Has there been any discussion about porting pytest? Not to achieve a one-to-one feature list (pytest has it's own quirks) but just taking all the excellent concepts, like fixtures?

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• juancarlospaco (orginal) [2021-03-27T19:39:00+01:00] view original

  Theres setup, teardown, categories, etc heres some example with a description

  https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Nim-for-Python-Programmers#Unittests

  You can use unittest with testament too.

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• lhupfeldt (orginal) [2021-03-27T20:54:14+01:00] view original

  Thank you. I saw a few mentions about some of unittest which should not be used with testament.

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