Normally I write my unit tests in F# as
open Swensen.Unquote
open Xunit
module MyTests =
[<Fact>]
let ``SomeFunction should return 10`` () =
let a = SomeFunction()
test <@ a = 10 @>
[<Fact>]
let ``SomeOtherFunction should return 11`` () =
let a = SomeFunction()
test <@ a = 11 @>
If I wish to log to the console from xunit ( according to http://xunit.github.io/docs/capturing-output.html ) one needs to write a constructor that takes an ITestOutputHelper and then use that instead of Console.WriteLine and family.
using Xunit;
using Xunit.Abstractions;
public class MyTestClass
{
private readonly ITestOutputHelper output;
public MyTestClass(ITestOutputHelper output)
{
this.output = output;
}
[Fact]
public void MyTest()
{
var temp = "my class!";
output.WriteLine("This is output from {0}", temp);
}
}
however fsharp modules are static classes and the tests are static methods. There is no constructor to inject the output helper.
Is there a way to get access to the current output helper for the current test. I know I could rewrite my fsharp tests to be non static classes but that is undesired.
After looking at the XUnit source.
https://github.com/xunit/xunit/blob/e64f566b75f93cd3cec27f950759d82832bfe44b/src/xunit.execution/Sdk/Frameworks/Runners/TestClassRunner.cs#L90
I'm pretty sure this is an overlooked case. There is no injection of the helper into static classes.