Thanks—that’s very helpful. My unit tests are doing what they need to for now but will definitely want to refine them with this new knowledge.
Cheers, E. _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow> From: Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 9:24 AM To: Eliot Kimber <eliot.kim...@servicenow.com> Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Techniques for Unit Testing Updating Operations [External Email] > Just confirm: while before-module and after-module are separate transactions, > within a single unit:test function that itself performs an updating function > there’s no way to then evaluate the result of the update as any asserts will > be in the same transaction. Exactly. > […] it would only make sense when you have exactly one unit:test in a module, > as unit:before/after is run for each test in the module. You can also specify the name of a function along with %unit:before and %unit:after [1]: module namespace _ = '_'; declare %unit:before('b') function _:before-b() { prof:dump('before b') }; declare %unit:test function _:a() { prof:dump('a') }; declare %unit:test function _:b() { prof:dump('b') }; Evaluating: "a" "before b" "b" If you want to simulate updates, another solution is to use the copy/modify/return or update clauses [2]: let $x := <x/> update { insert node 'x' into . } return unit:assert-equals(string($x), 'x') [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Unit_Module*unit:before__;Iw!!N4vogdjhuJM!SU4jXyuFok_Q006ccRre4Z1FgRQUxTg3o7EtB9sQO6XQHOr3EfrV7tn9osDaLac4rJ3Rag$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.basex.org/wiki/Unit_Module*unit:before__;Iw!!N4vogdjhuJM!SU4jXyuFok_Q006ccRre4Z1FgRQUxTg3o7EtB9sQO6XQHOr3EfrV7tn9osDaLac4rJ3Rag$> [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_Update*Non-Updating_Expressions__;Iw!!N4vogdjhuJM!SU4jXyuFok_Q006ccRre4Z1FgRQUxTg3o7EtB9sQO6XQHOr3EfrV7tn9osDaLadhvMzKWA$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_Update*Non-Updating_Expressions__;Iw!!N4vogdjhuJM!SU4jXyuFok_Q006ccRre4Z1FgRQUxTg3o7EtB9sQO6XQHOr3EfrV7tn9osDaLadhvMzKWA$>
