Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-11-15 Thread Steve Ford
Hi Colin

I'm a beginner, and I started with midje.  But I was very interested to 
read your thoughts about clojure.test being more opinionated.  Since I'm 
still learning, I suspect I would benefit from clojure.test's encouragement 
to be more idiomatic.

However, one thing I absolutely love is midje's autotest.  I love writing 
out my editor and having the tests run immediately in another window.  No 
more bugs of the form, Oh, this is just a simple, obvious change; no need 
to re-run tests.

Is there anything like that which could be done with clojure.test?

Thanks!
Steve

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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-11-15 Thread Colin Yates
Hi Steve,

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/wiki/Plugins has a few listed.

There is also the non-specific https://github.com/weavejester/lein-auto as
well.

Hope this helps, and good luck testing!

Colin
On 15 Nov 2014 20:19, Steve Ford fordsfo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Colin

 I'm a beginner, and I started with midje.  But I was very interested to
 read your thoughts about clojure.test being more opinionated.  Since I'm
 still learning, I suspect I would benefit from clojure.test's encouragement
 to be more idiomatic.

 However, one thing I absolutely love is midje's autotest.  I love writing
 out my editor and having the tests run immediately in another window.  No
 more bugs of the form, Oh, this is just a simple, obvious change; no need
 to re-run tests.

 Is there anything like that which could be done with clojure.test?

 Thanks!
 Steve

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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-11-15 Thread Colin Yates
As a P.S. I did say it was more opinionated,  but on hindsight I am not
sure that is the right phrase. I meant that it was intentionally simple so
there was less room to hang yourself as oppose to midje which is excellent
but can more easily accommodate poor behaviour.

For example, in the early days I was particularly susceptible to writing
functions which did too much and called too many other functions. With
Midje, mocking these other functions was trivial, on hindsight a bit more
pain would have been a helpful smell.

I guess you can misuse any tool, and it was my insufficiency not Midje, but
sometimes removing the choices is a good thing.
Hi Colin

I'm a beginner, and I started with midje.  But I was very interested to
read your thoughts about clojure.test being more opinionated.  Since I'm
still learning, I suspect I would benefit from clojure.test's encouragement
to be more idiomatic.

However, one thing I absolutely love is midje's autotest.  I love writing
out my editor and having the tests run immediately in another window.  No
more bugs of the form, Oh, this is just a simple, obvious change; no need
to re-run tests.

Is there anything like that which could be done with clojure.test?

Thanks!
Steve

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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-11-15 Thread Brian Marick

On Nov 15, 2014, at 3:52 PM, Colin Yates colin.ya...@gmail.com wrote:

 For example, in the early days I was particularly susceptible to writing 
 functions which did too much and called too many other functions. With Midje, 
 mocking these other functions was trivial, on hindsight a bit more pain would 
 have been a helpful smell.

I'm susceptible to that, too - still figuring it out. The terminology Midje 
uses, which is supposed to be reminiscent of facts that are true if subsidiary 
prerequisites/lemmas are, was intended to help. If the `prerequisite` or 
`provided` form says something interesting about the domain, it's more likely 
to be useful than if it's just something that makes the test easier to pass. 

After about a year and a half of daily use of Midje on production code, I'm 
finding my style is to be mock-heavy on early iterations, reducing the number 
as new requirements force rework of the tests and code.  


Latest book: /Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer/
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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-11-15 Thread Steven Degutis
There's more to it than just style differences. Some of them have
capabilities and offer functionality that others don't have, which may
push you towards using such a one if you have a real need for those
features.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers of Speclj, which we use it at
work, and which my colleague and friend wrote, so I may be a bit
biased.

-Steven


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Aleš Roubíček rar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Every library is good for different kinds of testing. If you like BDD style
 go with Speclj, if you want to do acceptance testing with table like data go
 with Midje. If you preffer test after go with expectations or clojure.test.
 Test.Check is good addition to test toolbelt for everyone.


 On Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:51:11 PM UTC+1, Roelof Wobben wrote:

 Hello,

 Im learning clojure as the beginnner.
 When im googeling for a testing platform there seems to be two major
 choices midje and specjl.

 Now I see that my learning course from github uses midje.

 Can I better learn midje and it this one still active maintained or can I
 better learn specjl.


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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-10-28 Thread Aleš Roubíček
Every library is good for different kinds of testing. If you like BDD style 
go with Speclj, if you want to do acceptance testing with table like data 
go with Midje. If you preffer test after go with expectations or 
clojure.test. Test.Check is good addition to test toolbelt for everyone.

On Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:51:11 PM UTC+1, Roelof Wobben wrote:

 Hello, 

 Im learning clojure as the beginnner.
 When im googeling for a testing platform there seems to be two major 
 choices midje and specjl.

 Now I see that my learning course from github uses midje.

 Can I better learn midje and it this one still active maintained or can I 
 better learn specjl. 


 Roelof



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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-10-28 Thread Colin Yates
Hi Roelof,

I have used midje for a few years now and it is excellent. It was the first 
one I picked up.

However, I would recommend clojure.test *whilst learning* for a few reasons:
- it is sufficient
- it is opinionated and therefore keeps you on the straight and narrow
- it is (probably) the best supported in terms of IDE support (emacs and 
CIDER for example)

Midje is great, it really is. And although I haven't used any of the others 
(although I have looked at them and am very familiar with BDD) I am sure 
the same could be said of them. However, for me the question is one of 
focus and guidance. 

Part of midje's greatness is its flexibility. It supports top down, bottom 
up, makes mocking easy etc. None of which helps when the problem being 
solved is how do I do this *idiomatically*. clojure.test is much more 
opinionated, so if you are fighting the tool then that is a big flag that 
you might be doing something wrong right there. I picked up Midje for 
example and it allowed me to carry on writing OO code far longer than I 
should have. Had I used clojure.test then I wouldn't have had to fight some 
small incidental complexity battles (junit integration for example) and 
would have lost other battles I shouldn't have won (if you see what I mean).

Ultimately, there are no wrong choices here - they are great.

If it helps, I am starting a new project and starting off with clojure.test 
to see how far that gets me. This is more to do with grass is greener 
than anything else :).

On Sunday, 26 October 2014 17:51:11 UTC, Roelof Wobben wrote:

 Hello, 

 Im learning clojure as the beginnner.
 When im googeling for a testing platform there seems to be two major 
 choices midje and specjl.

 Now I see that my learning course from github uses midje.

 Can I better learn midje and it this one still active maintained or can I 
 better learn specjl. 


 Roelof



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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-10-28 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello Colin, 

Do you know any good tutorials about learning clojure.test. ?

Roelof


Op dinsdag 28 oktober 2014 10:16:19 UTC+1 schreef Colin Yates:

 Hi Roelof,

 I have used midje for a few years now and it is excellent. It was the 
 first one I picked up.

 However, I would recommend clojure.test *whilst learning* for a few 
 reasons:
 - it is sufficient
 - it is opinionated and therefore keeps you on the straight and narrow
 - it is (probably) the best supported in terms of IDE support (emacs and 
 CIDER for example)

 Midje is great, it really is. And although I haven't used any of the 
 others (although I have looked at them and am very familiar with BDD) I am 
 sure the same could be said of them. However, for me the question is one of 
 focus and guidance. 

 Part of midje's greatness is its flexibility. It supports top down, bottom 
 up, makes mocking easy etc. None of which helps when the problem being 
 solved is how do I do this *idiomatically*. clojure.test is much more 
 opinionated, so if you are fighting the tool then that is a big flag that 
 you might be doing something wrong right there. I picked up Midje for 
 example and it allowed me to carry on writing OO code far longer than I 
 should have. Had I used clojure.test then I wouldn't have had to fight some 
 small incidental complexity battles (junit integration for example) and 
 would have lost other battles I shouldn't have won (if you see what I mean).

 Ultimately, there are no wrong choices here - they are great.

 If it helps, I am starting a new project and starting off with 
 clojure.test to see how far that gets me. This is more to do with grass is 
 greener than anything else :).

 On Sunday, 26 October 2014 17:51:11 UTC, Roelof Wobben wrote:

 Hello, 

 Im learning clojure as the beginnner.
 When im googeling for a testing platform there seems to be two major 
 choices midje and specjl.

 Now I see that my learning course from github uses midje.

 Can I better learn midje and it this one still active maintained or can I 
 better learn specjl. 


 Roelof



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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-10-28 Thread Colin Yates
I don't off the top of my head but http://clojuredocs.org/clojure.test
and https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.test-api.html should be
enough.

I seem to remember one of the clojure books included a chapter on them.

I am sure someone else on this group will offer a better resource.

On 28 October 2014 18:33, Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Hello Colin,

 Do you know any good tutorials about learning clojure.test. ?

 Roelof


 Op dinsdag 28 oktober 2014 10:16:19 UTC+1 schreef Colin Yates:

 Hi Roelof,

 I have used midje for a few years now and it is excellent. It was the
 first one I picked up.

 However, I would recommend clojure.test *whilst learning* for a few
 reasons:
 - it is sufficient
 - it is opinionated and therefore keeps you on the straight and narrow
 - it is (probably) the best supported in terms of IDE support (emacs and
 CIDER for example)

 Midje is great, it really is. And although I haven't used any of the
 others (although I have looked at them and am very familiar with BDD) I am
 sure the same could be said of them. However, for me the question is one of
 focus and guidance.

 Part of midje's greatness is its flexibility. It supports top down, bottom
 up, makes mocking easy etc. None of which helps when the problem being
 solved is how do I do this *idiomatically*. clojure.test is much more
 opinionated, so if you are fighting the tool then that is a big flag that
 you might be doing something wrong right there. I picked up Midje for
 example and it allowed me to carry on writing OO code far longer than I
 should have. Had I used clojure.test then I wouldn't have had to fight some
 small incidental complexity battles (junit integration for example) and
 would have lost other battles I shouldn't have won (if you see what I mean).

 Ultimately, there are no wrong choices here - they are great.

 If it helps, I am starting a new project and starting off with
 clojure.test to see how far that gets me. This is more to do with grass is
 greener than anything else :).

 On Sunday, 26 October 2014 17:51:11 UTC, Roelof Wobben wrote:

 Hello,

 Im learning clojure as the beginnner.
 When im googeling for a testing platform there seems to be two major
 choices midje and specjl.

 Now I see that my learning course from github uses midje.

 Can I better learn midje and it this one still active maintained or can I
 better learn specjl.


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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-10-26 Thread Brian Marick

On Oct 26, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Can I better learn midje and it this one still active maintained or can I 
 better learn specjl.

I've fallen behind on Midje maintenance (and, indeed, many things other than 
work). I'm gradually ramping up again with ideas gained in a year and a half of 
daily use.

For learning Clojure, I think any testing framework will suit you well. 


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Re: testing platform , midje or specjl ?

2014-10-26 Thread Reid McKenzie
Have another +1 for clojure.test. It’s packaged with Clojure and while 
it’s not especially shiny I find that it gets the job done most of the 
time in addition to having the best tooling support.


In my latest project, I’ve been enjoying using org.clojure/test.check 
https://github.com/clojure/test.check, arguably the most active of the 
QuickCheck clones for Clojure. I’ve been very happy with it, especially 
when paired with lein-cloverage https://github.com/lshift/cloverage to 
report on test coverage. It’s been …. interesting to say the least to be 
able to watch how the tests I write compare to the actual code paths I 
write. Many corner cases now covered and eliminated as a result. By way 
of example: a trivial recursive decent parser: 
https://github.com/oxlang/oxlang/blob/master/src/oxlang/parser.clj and 
test.check test coverage: 
https://github.com/oxlang/oxlang/blob/master/test/oxlang/parser_test.clj. Note 
that the |(defspec)| form is a macro that emits |clojure.test| test 
handles for |test.check| properties, so you can get the best of both :D.


Reid

On 10/26/2014 04:50 PM, cameron wrote:


Id' second clojure.test,
  it's simple, tests are written in idiomatic clojure and has good 
tooling support (eg. run tests in cider).

It's my go-to testing library now.


On Monday, 27 October 2014 07:26:25 UTC+11, Ashton Kemerling wrote:

Don't forget clojure.test! It's simple, but I've found it to be
sufficient.



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