Guess this is somewhat a personal perspective, but here are some thoughts on testing in Clojure:
- People do a lot of automated testing in general and there are some great testing libraries available (e.g. test.check) - People tend not to strictly follow "Test Driven Development" practices. e.g. in my experience, tests are usually added after the fact (I think Rich's guard rail analogy is more a criticism of TDD rather than testing in general) - Writing in idiomatic Clojure in functional style is a big plus for testing (much easier to test pure functions and immutable data structures). - Lack of static typing is a big minus (you often have to write tests to verify properties that even a fairly simple static type system would have caught for you). core.typed may alleviate this, though at the cost of extra code and build complexity. - There is some very good integration with the CI tools (CircleCI etc.) that you can take advantage of - If you are trying to test whole systems with state, rather than just just individual bits of code, then you should look at the mocking capabilities in stuartsierra/component - A lot of testing during development is done informally at the REPL. There is a risk that people get a bit lazy about converting these into proper tests later, but on average the convenience and quick feedback of REPL usage is a big win. On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:53:44 UTC+8, Daniel Hinojosa wrote: > > What is TDD culture in Clojure like? Is it strong in the community and > other projects? I am aware of Rich Hickey's guard rail analogy. Did that > have an effect on how Clojurists view TDD or testing in general? Just > asking for my own personal research. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
