Hi Ulises,

I don't think I am as that would require essentially a fixture per distinct
combinations of test state, which is almost the same number of tests.

Have I missed something?


On 21 May 2013 15:51, Ulises <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps you're looking for fixtures?
> http://thornydev.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/before-and-after-logic-in-clojuretest.html
>
> U
>
>
> On 21 May 2013 15:17, Colin Yates <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I am using clojure.test and have some questions of how to write idiomatic
>> Clojure.  This really isn't about testing at all per-se.
>>
>> First - I know about fixtures to get (at least) the same as JUnit's
>> before/after behaviour.
>>
>> My code is a bloomy.  You can configure the bloomy and it does different
>> things based on that behaviour.  Pretty much every test has a different
>> bloomy, *and* that bloomy must be elegantly shut down.
>>
>> How should I handle this?
>>
>> At the moment I have the most un-idiomatic way and blunt way of :
>>
>> [code]
>> (deftest my-test
>>   (let [bloomy (create-a-bloomy]
>>   (try
>>     (do-something-with-my-bloomy)
>>     (is (=....))
>>   (finally (shut-down bloomy))))
>> [/code]
>>
>> Yep, try/finally in every test - reminds me of early JDBC libraries
>> before Spring :).  If I understand it correctly, I would end up writing a
>> separate fixture for each and every test, or at least each any every unique
>> set of test context.
>>
>> I did consider writing a "(defn with-bloomy [bloomy test] (try (test)
>> (finally (shut-down bloomy))))" but I couldn't figure out how to pass my
>> bloomy into the test itself.  I also received lots of "assertion not in
>> expectation" type errors.  To be explicit I would use this as "(with-bloomy
>> (create-a-bloomy) (deftest...)))".
>>
>> I did consider a variation on the above of passing in a function which
>> only contained the assertions, so "(deftest my-test (let [bloomy...]
>> (with-bloomy bloomy #(is (= 1 (get-something bloomy)))))" but I also ran
>> into similar "assertion not in expectation" type errors, and the
>> indentation in emacs was insane.
>>
>> I expect a macro might be the answer?
>>
>> So, how would you solve this?
>>
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