From: Massimiliano Mirra - bard <mmirra@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T05:40:33+09:00
Subject: Literate testing?


I was documenting a class and found myself often copying unit tests
and pasting them as examples.  I think I also read something about
tests embedded in doc strings in Python.  So in the interest of DRY I
figured something like this could be desirable:

  class Calculator
    extend Literate

    example
      # Addition
      add(2, 8) == 10
    end
  
    def add(a, b)
      return a + b
    end
  end
  
I then came up with a stupid but working proof of concept:
  
  class Calculator
    extend Literate
    
    example(__FILE__, __LINE__) do |calc|
      # Addition
      calc.add(2, 8) == 10
    end
  
    def add(a, b)
      return a + b
    end
  
    example(__FILE__, __LINE__) do |calc|
      # Integer division
      calc.div(10, 2) == 5
    end
  
    def div(a, b)
      return a / b + 1
    end
  end

When examples are run as tests and a test does not pass (as the div
example above), this is the output:

  Test passed at line 17.
  Test failed at line 27:
      # Integer division
      calc.div(10, 2) == 5

This is the rest:
  
  module Literate
    def examples
      @examples ||= []
    end
  
    def example(file, line, &example)
      @examples ||= []
      @examples << [file, line, example]
    end
  end
  
  Calculator.examples.each do |file, line, example|
    c = Calculator.new
    if example.call(c)
      puts "Test passed at line #{line}."
    else
      puts "Test failed at line #{line}:"
      puts File.readlines(file)[line, 2]
    end
  end
  
What do you think?



Massimiliano