Gambiarra

Gambiarra is a Lua version of Kludjs, and follows the idea of ultimately minimal unit testing.

This is a fork from of zserges's Gambiarra. It was based on salamandern's changes, but I removed them in ce0ce2cbe4.

Install

Get the sources:

git clone https://git.kokolor.es/imo/gambiarra.git

or git clone https://codeberg.org/imo/gambiarra.git

Or get only gambiarra.lua and start writing tests:

wget https://git.kokolor.es/imo/gambiarra/raw/branch/master/gambiarra.lua

or wget https://codeberg.org/imo/gambiarra/raw/branch/master/gambiarra.lua

Example

-- Simple synchronous test
test('Check dogma', function()
    ok(2+2 == 5, 'two plus two equals five')
end)

-- A more advanced asyncrhonous test
test('Do it later', function(done)
    someAsyncFn(function(result)
        ok(result == expected)
        done()     -- this starts the next async test
    end)
end, true)     -- 'true' means 'async test' here

API

require('gambiarra') returns a test function which can also be used to customize test reports:

local test = require('gambiarra')

test(name:string, f:function, [async:bool]) allows you to define a new test:

test('My sync test', function()
end)

test('My async test', function(done)
    done()
end, true)

test() defines also three helper functions that are added when test is executed - ok, eq, and spy.

ok(cond:bool, [msg:string])

It's a simple assertion helper. It takes any boolean condition and an optional assertion message. If no message is defined - current filename and line will be used.

ok(1 == 1)                   -- prints 'foo.lua:42'
ok(1 == 1, 'one equals one') -- prints 'one equals one'

eq(a, b)

It's a helper to deeply compare lua variables. It supports numbers, strings, booleans, nils, functions and tables. It's mostly useful within ok():

ok(eq(1, 1))
ok(eq('foo', 'bar'))
ok(eq({a='b',c='d'}, {c='d',a='b'})

If it is used within ok() and the compared values are not equal, ok() print what it expected but what it got.

local x = 1
eq(ok(x, 1), "x is one") -- OUT: "One is one"
eq(ok(x, 2), "x is one") -- OUT: "One is one: Expected 2 but got 1"
eq(ok({a='b',c='d'}, {c='d',a='b'}), "Tables are equal") -- OUT: "Expected table 0864545 but got table 08115636"
-- If you define __tostring metamethods for your tables, they will be used.

spy([f])

It creates function wrappers that remember each their call (arguments, errors) but behaves much like the real function. Real function is optional, in this case spy() will return nil, but will still record it's calls. Spies are most helpful when passing them as callbacks and testing that they were called with correct values.

local f = spy(function(s) return #s end)
ok(f('hello') == 5)
ok(f('foo') == 3)
ok(#f.called == 2)
ok(eq(f.called[1], {'hello'})
ok(eq(f.called[2], {'foo'})
f(nil)
ok(f.errors[3] ~= nil)

Reports

To have gambiarra print a concluding report at the end, use test:report():

local test = require "gambiarra"
test:report()
-- OUT: "All 0 tests passed."

Another useful feature is that you can customize test reports as you need. But default tests are printed in color using ANSI escape sequences. If your environment doesn't support it - you can easily override this behavior as well as add any other information you need (number of passed/failed assertions, time the test took etc):

local passed = 0
local failed = 0
local clock = 0

test(function(event, testfunc, msg)
    if event == 'begin' then
        print('Started test', testfunc)
        passed = 0
        failed = 0
        clock = os.clock()
    elseif event == 'end' then
        print('Finished test', testfunc, passed, failed, os.clock() - clock)
    elseif event == 'pass' then
        passed = passed + 1
    elseif event == 'fail' then
        print('FAIL', testfunc, msg)
        failed = failed + 1
    elseif event == 'except' then
        print('ERROR', testfunc, msg)
    end
end)

Additionally, you can pass a different environment to keep _G unpolluted:

test(function() ... end, myenv)

test('Some test', function()
    myenv.ok(myenv.eq(...))
    local f = myenv.spy()
end)

Contributing

Please open issues or pull requests at codeberg: https://codeberg.org/imo/gambiarra

Appendix

Library supports Lua >5.1. It is distributed under the MIT license. Contributers can be found in CONTRIBUTORS.md. Enjoy!