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doc-test is a Clojure namespace that provides Python-like doctests [1]. WHY DOC-TEST? ------------- Examples are very useful in documentation and help to clarify the meaning of descriptions. Take #'clojure.set/join: "When passed 2 rels, returns the rel corresponding to the natural join. When passed an additional keymap, joins on the corresponding keys." Que? A simple example is much more clear for someone reading the docs for the first time: (def languages #{{:name "C" :type "procedural"} {:name "Clojure" :type "functional"} {:name "Haskell" :type "functional"}}) (def fun-level #{{:type "procedural" :funness "meh"} {:type "functional" :funness "awesome"}}) => (clojure.set/join languages fun-level) #{{:name "Haskell", :type "functional", :funness "awesome"} {:name "Clojure", :type "functional", :funness "awesome"} {:name "C", :type "procedural", :funness "meh"}} Awesome. The only problem is that sometimes documentation and actual code fall out of sync with each other. Doc-tests provide a way to assure that doesn't happen. The examples in the documentation are tested with the rest of the code! HOW TO DOC-TEST --------------- Here's an example function with some doc-tests: (defn adder "A simple function to test the doctest macro with. => ((adder 1) 2) 4 ; incorrect! => ((adder 4) 5) 9" [n1] (fn [n2] (+ n1 n2))) To generate the tests from #'adder's doc-string: (doc-test adder) Put this wherever you've put the rest of your #'clojure.test/deftests. When the above test is run this error occurs: FAIL in (adder__doc-test__88) (doc_test_tests.clj:19) expected: (clojure.core/= ((adder 1) 2) (quote 4)) actual: (not (clojure.core/= 3 4)) Doc-test makes efforts to make test failures easier to debug. Because your documentation is turned into standard clojure.test declarations, we see the failure display in the same way. The test name is the symbol's name along with "__doc-test__". The expected and actual statements are also exactly what was in the doc-string. [1] http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html [2] http://clojure.org/API#toc662
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