Re: [ANN] ggspec v1.0 released - a unit testing framework

[Jan Wedekind]

Hi,
Maybe you might be interested in making the output TAP compatible [3]? 
Automake 1.14 supports TAP testing. I am using Guile-TAP [4] at the moment [5].

Regards Jan

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol
[4] https://github.com/xevz/guile-tap/
[5] https://github.com/wedesoft/aiscm/

On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, Yawar Amin wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've just polished up and released ggspec v1.0.[1] Ggspec is a unit testing 
> framework targeting Guile 1.8.8, with Guile 2 support in the planning stage. 
> Excerpt from the release notes:
>
>  - The `ggspec` script is a test runner that will find and run all tests in 
> your project's `spec` subdirectory (recursively).
>
>  - Test results (pass or fail) and details (if fail) are output _as soon as 
> they are known._ This means before the next test is run. So you get immediate 
> feedback.
>
>  - All setups (i.e. definitions) are re-run before _every_ test, and so are all 
> teardowns. This means that all setup values used in tests are completely 
> isolated from each other and every test runs in a clean environment. Modulo, of 
> course, you or some implicitly-run Scheme procedure changing global or 
> thread-local state.
>
>  - **Warning** that the `test` macro API will change slightly, soon. You should 
> be future-proof if you restrict the test body to a single expression. Use 
> `begin` if you need to. E.g., use:
>
> ...
> (test "Description"
>  e
>  (begin expr1 expr2 exp3 ...))
> ...
>
> ... instead of:
>
> ...
> (test "Description"
>  e
>  expr1 expr2 exp3 ...)
> ...
>
> Tutorial is on the repo home page.[2] I'd welcome feedback.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yawar
>
> [1] https://github.com/yawaramin/ggspec/releases/tag/v1.0
>
> [2] https://github.com/yawaramin/ggspec