I recently started working with pure Erlang and when I got back to Elixir there was one thing that I was truly missing - Common Test, which is Erlang’s library for testing. It is much more powerful than ExUnit, mostly because these two targets completely different use cases - ExUnit focus on unit tests (which makes it (better) equivalent to EUnit) and Common Test focus on integration and large scale testing (potentially with mutable state). So as I was missing Common Test I have started wrapper library (very early stage of the work) mostly to check if I would be able to provide better UI.
What I have achieved so far can be checked on GitHub repo.
Example test suite with current API:
defmodule MyApp.TestsSuite do
use CommonTest.Suite
test "pass" do
assert 1 + 1 == 2
end
test "fail" do
assert 2 + 2 == 5
end
end
TODO
- Support for test groups
- Better error display
- More assertions (currently supports only
assert/1-3) - Documentation
- Better tests runner
- Support for handling configuration
I would like to hear what do you think about the current API and your ideas how should the final API look like.
