Catchr

Experimental: Might eat your laundry!

A testing framework for Rust inspired by Catch for C++.

Quickstart

Add catchr = "0.2.1" to your Cargo.toml

Write tests:

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    catchr::describe! {
        section "my tests" {
            given "x is equal to 1" {
                let mut x = 1;

                when "1 is added to x" {
                    x += 1;

                    then "x should equal 2" {
                        assert_eq!(2, x);
                    }
                }

                when "2 is added to x" {
                    x += 2;

                    then "x should equal 3" {
                        assert_eq!(3, x);
                    }
                }

                // for all code paths
                assert!(x >= 2);
            }
        }
    }
}

cargo test

running 2 tests
test tests::section_my_tests::given_x_is_equal_to_1::when_2_is_added_to_x::then_x_should_equal_3 ... ok
test tests::section_my_tests::given_x_is_equal_to_1::when_1_is_added_to_x::then_x_should_equal_2 ... ok

test result: ok. 2 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

Sections

Each test section consists of a keyword, a description and a body.

keyword "description" {
    // body
}

For the moment the following keywords are supported: section, case, when, then, given.

Sections without any nested section will become test cases. Sections function like scopes - that is statements from the outer section are available in the inner section:

when "something" {
    let x = 1;

    then "anything" {
        let y = 1;
        assert_eq!(x, y);
    }

    then "whatever" {
        assert!(true);
    }
}

The let x = 1; can be used in the then "anything" section. But let y = 1; from the then "anything" section, cannot be used in the then "whatever" section.

Furthermore the scoping rules are preserved, so that inner test cases can borrow mutably without violating the borrow checker rules.

Consider the following example:

case "a" {
    let mut tmp = tempfile().unwrap();

    case "should write some data" {
        let mut writer = BufWriter::new(&mut tmp);
        writer.write_all(&[1, 2, 3]).unwrap();
    }

    tmp.seek(SeekFrom::Start(0)).unwrap();
    let bytes_in_tmp_file = tmp.seek(SeekFrom::End(0)).unwrap();

    assert_eq!(bytes_in_tmp_file, 3);
}

if the test case was expanded without scoping, we'd get

let mut tmp = tempfile().unwrap();

let mut writer = BufWriter::new(&mut tmp);
writer.write_all(&[1, 2, 3]).unwrap();

tmp.seek(SeekFrom::Start(0)).unwrap();
let bytes_in_tmp_file = tmp.seek(SeekFrom::End(0)).unwrap();

assert_eq!(bytes_in_tmp_file, 3);

which fails to compile!

so catchr will expand this test case into

let mut tmp = tempfile().unwrap();

{
    let mut writer = BufWriter::new(&mut tmp);
    writer.write_all(&[1, 2, 3]).unwrap();
}

tmp.seek(SeekFrom::Start(0)).unwrap();
let bytes_in_tmp_file = tmp.seek(SeekFrom::End(0)).unwrap();

assert_eq!(bytes_in_tmp_file, 3);

How does it work?

The code from the Quickstart section will expand into something like this:

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    mod section_my_tests {
        use super::*;

        mod given_x_is_equal_to_1 {
            use super::*;

            mod when_1_is_added_to_x {
                use super::*;

                #[test]
                fn then_x_should_equal_2() {
                    {
                        let mut x = 1;
                        {
                            x += 1;
                            {
                                assert_eq!(2, x);
                            }
                        }
                        assert!(x >= 2);
                    }
                }
            }

            mod when_2_is_added_to_x {
                use super::*;

                #[test]
                fn then_x_should_equal_3() {
                    {
                        let mut x = 1;
                        {
                            x += 2;
                            {
                                assert_eq!(3, x);
                            }
                        }
                        assert!(x >= 2);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}