chui

Modern ClojureScript test runner

錘 (锤) [chuí]

(rhymes with "hey")

• hammer
• to hammer into shape
• weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)

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Funded by Pitch

We want to thank Pitch for funding the initial development of Chui, and their continuing support of the Clojure and ClojureScript ecosystem.

 

 

Support Lambda Island Open Source

chui is part of a growing collection of quality Clojure libraries and tools released on the Lambda Island label. If you are using this project commercially then you are expected to pay it forward by becoming a backer on Open Collective, so that we may continue to enjoy a thriving Clojure ecosystem.

 

 

Motivation

The testing library that comes with ClojureScript, cljs.test, consists of two parts: an API for expressing tests and assertions, and a test runner for executing tests. Chui re-implements the test runner part in a way that allows more dynamic and fine-grained control, so that it forms a better base for tooling. It also offers an attractive browser-based UI for running tests and inspecting results.

See the Architecture Decision Log for technical background.

Installation

deps.edn

lambdaisland/chui {:mvn/version "1.0.179"}

project.clj

[lambdaisland/chui "1.0.179"]

Quickstart with shadow-cljs

The easiest way to use this right now is with Shadow-cljs's :browser-test target.

Use the lambdaisland.chui.shadow.browser-runner namespace as your :runner-ns, and you should be good to go.

{:dev-http
 {8888 "classpath:public"}

 :builds
 {:test
  {:target     :browser-test
   :runner-ns  lambdaisland.chui.shadow.browser-runner
   :test-dir   "resources/public"
   :asset-path "/ui"
   :ns-regexp  "-test$"}}}

This assumes that you are using the index.html generated by Shadow. If you're serving your own index.html then make sure it contains a call to lambdaisland.chui.shadow.browser-runner/init.

Use with other tools

The main reason we recommend shadow-cljs's :browser-test is that it will find test namespaces on the filesystem, and automatically add them to your build as dependencies of the test runner namespace. When using other tools you have to do that manually, as so far no other tools have this functionality, but we hope something like this will become more widely available, either in ClojureScript itself, or in common tools.

Here's what a main namespace that starts Chui and runs your tests looks like.

(ns my.test.runner
  (:require [goog.dom :as gdom]
            [lambdaisland.chui.runner :as runner]
            [lambdaisland.chui.ui :as ui]
            [lambdaisland.chui.test-data :as test-data]

            ;; Add all your test namespaces as dependencies, to make sure they
            ;; are part of the build, and that they are compiled *before* this
            ;; namespace gets compiled. This is imporant for chui to find your
            ;; tests.
            my.foo-test
            my.bar-test
            my.baz-test))

;; This is a macro that inspects the cljs compiler environment to find
;; information about which tests there are, and then injects this information
;; into the build so that it's available to Chui.
(test-data/capture-test-data!)

(defn start
  "Start a test run, this is the same as pressing the Test button in the UI. You
  can run this after hot-reloading code."
  []
  (js/window.requestIdleCallback
   #(ui/run-tests)))

(defn stop
  "Interrupt the current test run, calls the done callback when done. Can be used
  as a pre-hook before hot code reloading."
  [done]
  (runner/terminate! done))

(defn ^:export init
  "Mount the Chui UI and kick off a test run, call this upon first page load."
  []
  (let [app (gdom/createElement "div")]
    (gdom/setProperties app #js {:id "chui-container"})
    (gdom/append js/document.body app))
  (ui/render! (.getElementById js/document "chui-container"))
  (start))

Usage instructions

The Chui UI has four columns. The first one contains a list of all your tests namespaces, as well as a search box and a test button.

The button kicks off a test run, by default it runs all tests, but you can narrow that down by either selecting tests manually in the list, or by putting a query in the search box. By default this does a simple string search, but you can use the "regexp" checkbox in the top bar to treat the input as a regex pattern.

The second column from the left contains a history of all your test runs. For each run you see a regular progress bar, and below that a visual overview of the test run, as a green/orange/red bar split across multiple lines.

You can think of this bar as being similar to the output you get in terminal-based test runners:

.........E.......FFF...........

Each bit of the bar represents a single assertion, colored green if the assertion passes, orange if it fails, and red if it threw an error. The bar is subdivided in namespaces and test vars. You can hover over each bit to see which namespace/var it refers to.

Below this visualization you get a summary, number of tests, assertions, failures and errors.

The third column shows you more details for the selected test run. By default the latest test run gets selected, but you can select older ones if you want to inspect previous results.

This third column shows namespaces and test vars. Note that if you have a lot of tests this can become hard to navigate, this is why you can enable the checkbox to hide passing tests.

Finally the fourth column shows the individual assertions, with full details. Which assertions are visible depends on the selection in the third column. By default all failing assertions are shown.

Limitations

Fixtures must use the :before / :after syntax. We don't support synchronous fixtures.

Promise-based async tests

Chui is able to detect that a deftest returns a JavaScript promise, and treat that as indicating it is an asynchronous test, so that Chui waits for the promise to resolve.

In vanilla cljs.test you would cljs.test/async for such tests, but this is a useful extension for people already relying on promises in their code.

Because this is a non-compatible extension this behavior is opt-in. To turn it on, add this to your ClojureScript compiler options:

{
 :closure-defines {lambdaisland.chui.runner.PROMISE_ASYNC_TEST true}

 }

License

Copyright © 2020 Arne Brasseur and Contributors

Licensed under the term of the Eclipse Public License 1.0, see LICENSE.