Chapter 28. Common Test for Uncommon Tests
Back in Chapter 24, we explored how to use EUnit to do unit and module testing, and even some concurrent testing. At that point, EUnit started to show its limits. Complex setups and longer tests that needed to interact with each other became problematic. Plus, EUnit does not provide any help for handling distributed Erlang and all of its power. Fortunately, another test framework exists, and it’s more appropriate for the heavy lifting we now want to do.
What Is Common Test?
As programmers, we enjoy treating our programs as black boxes. Many of us would define the core principle behind a good abstraction as being able to replace whatever we’ve written with an anonymous black box. You put something in the ...
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