Testerina

This repository is no longer used for development. Current developments are done in following repository.

https://github.com/ballerina-lang/ballerina

Testerina is the test framework built for the Ballerina language. This will be a part of ballerina-tools-<release-version>.zip distribution [1].

Testerina provides ballerina test command.

Once you run tests using ballerina test command, Testerina will print a summary of test results on the console.

To test a file written in Ballerina language, use the test command as follows.
./ballerina test <package_name>

Testerina provides following functions.

package ballerina.test;

• startService(string servicename)
• assertTrue(boolean condition, string message)
• assertFalse(boolean condition, string message)
• assertStringEquals(string actual, string expected, string errorMessage)
• assertIntEquals(int actual, int expected, string errorMessage)
• assertFloatEquals(float actual, float expected, string errorMessage)
• assertBooleanEquals(boolean actual, boolean expected, string errorMessage)
• assertStringArrayEquals(string[] actual, string[] expected, string errorMessage)
• assertFloatArrayEquals(float[] actual, float[] expected, string errorMessage)
• assertIntArrayEquals(int[] actual, int[] expected, string errorMessage)
• assertFail(string errorMessage)
• createBallerinaError (string errorMessage, string category) (AssertError)

Writing ballerina tests

• Test files should contain _test.bal suffix.
• Test functions should contain test prefix.
  e.g.: testAddTwoNumbers()
• Each test function may contain one or more asserts.
  e.g. 1:

import ballerina.test;
function testAddTwoNumbers() {
    test:assertIntEquals(addTwoNumbers(1, 2), 3, "Number addition failed for positive numbers");
    test:assertIntEquals(addTwoNumbers(-1, -2), -3, "Number addition failed for negative numbers");
    test:assertIntEquals(addTwoNumbers(0, 0), 0, "Number addition failed for number zero");
}

If at least one assert fails, whole test function will be marked as failed. Detailed information is shown in the test result summary.

One package may contain more than one *._test.bal file.

Tutorial

1 Download [1] ballerina-tools-<release-version>.zip distribution and unzip.
2 Unzip and go to ballerina-tools-<release-version>.
3 Create a directory samples/foo/bar.
4 Create the following two files inside this directory.

e.g.: sample.bal

package samples.foo.bar;

function main (string[] args) {
    int i = intAdd(1, 2);
    println("Result: " + i);
}
 
function intAdd(int a, int b) (int) {
    return a + b;
}

e.g.: sample_test.bal

package samples.foo.bar;
 
import ballerina.test;
 
function testInt() {	
    int answer = 0;
    answer = intAdd(1, 2);
    test:assertIntEquals(answer, 3, "IntAdd function failed");
	
}

Note the package hierarchy in above files.

5 Run tests using following command.
> ./bin/ballerina test samples/foo/bar/

Following is a sample console output.

result: 
tests run: 1, passed: 1, failed: 0

Reference:

[1] https://github.com/ballerinalang/distribution