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Web Development with Clojure
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Web Development with Clojure

by Dmitri Sotnikov
January 2014
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
5h 11m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Unit Tests

There are many schools of thought on how, what, and when to test. This is a very sensitive subject for many people. As such, I will simply give an overview of the basic tools available for testing and leave it up to you to decide how and when to use them.

The Test API

Clojure provides built-in support for testing via the clojure.test namespace. When a new project is created a test package will be generated along with it.

Let’s take a quick look at what this application programming interface (API) looks like and how to work with it. The simplest way to write tests is to create assertions using the is macro. The following are a few examples of how it works:

 
(is (​=​ 4 (​+​ 2 2)))
 
 
(is (​=​ 5 (​+​ 2 2)))
 
 
FAIL in (:1)
 
expected: ...
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