As a newbie to clojure, I have used leiningen to create a sample project with
lein new app first-project
which gave me this directory
.
├── doc
│ └── intro.md
├── LICENSE
├── project.clj
├── README.md
├── resources
├── src
│ └── first_project
│ └── core.clj
├── target
│ └── repl
│ ├── classes
│ └── stale
│ └── extract-native.dependencies
└── test
└── first_project
└── core_test.clj
Without modifying any files, I can lauch successfully the only failing test with
lein test
...
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
1 failures, 0 errors.
Tests failed.
But I am unable to do the same from the REPL using run-tests
lein repl
first-project.core=> (use 'clojure.test)
nil
first-project.core=> (run-tests)
Testing first-project.core
Ran 0 tests containing 0 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
{:type :summary, :pass 0, :test 0, :error 0, :fail 0}
I tried (but does not work)
(require 'first-project.core-test)
In your example above the repl is in the wrong namespace. It may work better if you switch the repl to the core_test
namespace. and then run (run-tests)
.
(in-ns 'first-project.core-test)
(run-tests)
Another fun way of developing tests is to just run them from the REPL until they work, because tests are normal functions with some extra metadata.
(in-ns 'first-project.core-test)
(my-test)
Remember you have to load the file in addition to calling in-ns
Let's say your test file is tests/first_project/core_test.clj
, then you will need to call
(load "tests/first_project/core_test")
(in-ns 'first-project.core-test)
(my-test)
Keep in mind that _
in the file system becomes -
in the namespace and /
becomes .
.
Start a REPL with lein repl
, then:
(require '[clojure.test :refer [run-tests]])
(require 'your-ns.example-test)
(run-tests 'your-ns.example-test)
I prefer to stay in the user
namespace, as opposed to changing it with in-ns
as mentioned by another answer. Instead, pass the namespace as an argument to run-tests
(as shown above).
I'd also recommend staying away from (use 'clojure.test)
; that is why I suggested (require '[clojure.test :refer [run-tests]])
above. For more background, read http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-879