Uspec
Uspec is a shiny little testing framework for your apps!
Philosophy / Why Uspec?
Uspec is just Ruby!
Unlike other testing frameworks there's no need for special matchers, there can only be one assertion per test, and you never have to worry that your tests lack assertions.
That's because when the spec
block is evaluated the return value is used (in a very ruby-like way)
to determine the validity of the statement. Standard Ruby comparisons are your friend!
No more digging around in your test framework's documentation to figure out what matcher you're supposed to use.
This also means no monkey patching core classes!
Uspec's output is in beautiful ansi technicolor, with red for failures, green for successes, and yellow for pending specs. Here's a screenshot:
Uspec is tiny, painless, and easy to use. Download it and give it a shot. :)
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'uspec'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install uspec
Quickstart
- Create a
spec
directory to keep your specs in. - Name your specs ending with
_spec.rb
. - Write some specs in Ruby using the
spec
method. - Use the included
uspec
executable to run your specs.
Hint: A lot of people also put require_relative 'spec_helper'
in their tests for global start up code.
Usage
$ uspec --help
uspec - minimalistic ruby testing framework
usage: uspec [<file_or_path>...]
- Without arguments the
uspec
command will automatially look forspec
directories and load any*_spec.rb
files inside them. - You can also pass in arbitrary files and it will attempt to run them as specs.
- If you pass in directories
uspec
will find and run any specs inside them. - Uspec will return
0
if all specs pass and255
if any fail.
Syntax
Uspec is just Ruby. The DSL is minimal - there's only one method to remember!
Writing a spec is easy:
spec 'AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a cool name' do
AwesomeMcCoolname.generate.include? 'Cool'
end
That's it!
Output
Examples of Uspec's output below!
Success
If a spec passes:
-- AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a cool name: true
Failure
If a spec fails:
-- AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a cool name: false
Exception
If the spec throws an error:
-- AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a cool name: Exception
Encountered an Exception while running spec
at uspec/awesome_mc_coolname_spec.rb:3: in `<main>'
RuntimeError < StandardError: 'wtf'
/Users/Dude/Projects/Awesome/lib/awesome_mc_coolname.rb:18:in `explode'
uspec/awesome_mc_coolname_spec.rb:4:in `block in <main>'
Non-boolean values
If you create a spec that doesn't return a boolean value (nil
doesn't count either!) like this:
spec 'AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a cool name' do
AwesomeMcCoolname.generate =~ /Badass/
end
Then Uspec will let you know:
-- AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a badass name: Unknown Result
Spec did not return a boolean value
at uspec/awesome_mc_coolname_spec.rb:6: in `<main>'
Integer < Numeric: 5
Pending
If you aren't ready to fill out a spec, maybe as a reminder to add functionality later, just leave off the block and it will be marked as pending
:
spec 'a feature I have not implemented yet'
When you run the test Uspec will helpfully display:
-- a feature I have not implemented yet: pending
Tips & Tricks
Because there's no matchers and only one method there's no reference documentation to look at, so here are some ideas to get you going!
String matching
Instead of =~
(which returns either an Integer
index or nil
) Ruby has the nifty include?
method, which returns a boolean:
spec 'AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a cool name' do
AwesomeMcCoolname.generate.include? 'Badass'
end
Regex matching
If you really need to regex, you can always use Ruby's !!
idiom to coerce a boolean out of any result,
but its more precise to specify the index if you know it.
And you can always toss in an ||
to drop in more information if a comparison fails too:
spec 'AwesomeMcCoolname.generate creates a cool name' do
index = AwesomeMcCoolname.generate =~ /Badass/
index == 0 || index
end
Exceptions
What if you want to test that an error has occured? Just use Ruby!
spec 'calling AwesomeMcCoolname.awesomeness without specifying the awesomeness level should explode' do
begin
AwesomeMcCoolname.awesomeness
rescue => error
error.class == ArgumentError || raise
end
end
If there's no error, then Uspec will see the result of the method call (whatever it might be).
If the wrong Exception is raised, then because of reraising (by just calling raise
without parameters),
Ruby will dutifully pass along the error for Uspec to display.
Assertions & Debugging
You can also use uspec
to track assertions in an application or any object you want. Every spec block you use will be tracked and recorded. It's really no problem at all to do.
You can load Uspec's features directly into a class and use its DSL:
require 'uspec'
class MyFoo
extend Uspec::DSL
def assert
spec 'foo is valid' do
false
end
end
end
MyFoo.new.assert
If there are any specs that fail, your application will exit with a 255
`.
$ ruby foo.rb
-- foo is valid: false
$ echo $?
255
Uspec is just Ruby
If for some reason you don't want to use the uspec
command, you can require 'uspec'
and extend Uspec::DSL
.
From there you can just run the file with ruby: ruby my_test_spec.rb
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request
Author
Anthony M. Cook 2013-2016