How is that different from asserting each of them was received followed by
a refute_received _? My concern about such helper is that it may imply an
ordering which we likely won’t assert. Although one could argue the same
about multiple assert_received calls.

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 16:04 Tobias Pfeiffer <prag...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I've happily been using a little helper for quite some time and Devon
> liked it as well so thought might propose it:
>
> I often want to make sure that a bunch of messages were received but
> exactly these messages and no more.
>
> Enter assert_received_exactly - it gets a list of expected messages and
> it expects that each of them arrives no more than specified. (as always
> sorry if something like this has been proposed before, haven't seen
> anything)
>
> E.g.
>
> assert_received_exactly [:foo, :foo, :bar]
>
> passes if we received :foo 2 times and :bar one time. It fails if we
> receive :foo or :bar more often or less often.
>
> Other usage example at [1].
>
> In the current implementation [2] receiving :baz won't fail the test as
> only expected values are checked. This is currently done because there
> are some messages being received that have nothing to do with the
> current thing under test (I stub out some interactions with dummy
> modules that send messages instead of doing work like [3]).
>
> I realize it's a very thin wrapper atm but having it part pf ExUnit
> would probably still help people and make tests better overall.
>
> Happy to try & convert it to a macro and PR it if this helper is desired
> :) (probably also with more custom error messages)
>
> Thanks for considering and for great community work and a great language!
> :)
> Tobi
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/PragTob/benchee/blob/3b60c17b067a7e7503cb0fb6e40bdc92ffde3fbd/test/benchee/benchmark/runner_test.exs#L854-L867
> [2]
>
> https://github.com/PragTob/benchee/blob/master/test/support/test_helpers.ex#L23-L29
> [3] https://devonestes.herokuapp.com/my-new-favorite-elixir-testing-trick
> --
> http://www.pragtob.info/
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "elixir-lang-core" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/e9f08407-830b-0e38-db5d-34d0672f247c%40gmail.com
> .
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
-- 


*José Valimwww.plataformatec.com.br
<http://www.plataformatec.com.br/>Founder and Director of R&D*

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"elixir-lang-core" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JunuWKNwUkuqPD6-fOCLC_WZDLas%2BsmKHE4L978uNzMg%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to