An experimental behavioral framework inspired from rspec.
Project description
Describe
A Behavior Driven Development or BDD framework inspired off of RSpec. The reason of BDD over TDD is out of scope of this project. But this framework is simply a way to try and encourage me to do more testing.
It is worth noting the development version breaks the existing API.
Installation
To install, use pip or easy_install:
pip install describe
Then you can import it:
from describe import Spec, Value, Mock # classes from describe import arg, repository # submodules
Usage
Quickstart
Then you can import the library for use in unittest or nose. The core feature is the Value object:
from describe import Value
Use this Value class to wrap values you want to set expectations. Here’s some API examples until I get proper documentation:
# self.assertEquals(9, 9) Value(9).should == 9 # self.assertAlmostEqual(5.0-4.0, 1.0) Value(5.0-4.0).should.be_close_to(1.0) # self.assertIn(3, (2,3,4)) Value((2,3,4)).should.contain(3) # self.assertNotIn(5, (2,3,4)) Value((2,3,4)).should_not.contain(5) # self.assertFalse(False) Value(False).should.be.false() # self.assertTrue(isinstance((), tuple)) Value(()).should.be.instance_of(tuple) # self.assertEqual(len(range(5)), 5) # '.elements' is optional Value(range(5)).should.have(5).elements # self.assertGreaterEqual(len(range(5)), 4) Value(range(5)).should.have.at_least(4)
Mocks
Mocks are used to abstract out classes that are not being tested. They can customized to return specific results and logs all operations done to it for verification later on. The mock API wraps the voidspace mock library. Feel free to use it directly instead of this API.
describe.Mock supports a few operations:
Mock.should_access property - Allows you to set expectations of method calls and attribute accesses.
Mock.should_not_access(attr_name) - Allows you to set expections of attributes not getting accessed.
Mock.verify() - Verifies all the expectations, throwing AssertionErrors if need be.
Mock.reset_mock() - clears the access log, you should never really use this directly.
All other attributes get directed to the voidspace mock object. A basic example:
# create the mock from describe import Mock m = Mock() # set an expectation on what will be performed on the object and it's response m.should_access.upper().and_return('FOO') # run it m.upper() # => 'FOO' # verify that the operations were executed m.verify() # if you want to invoke any operations on the mock object (and not the API), get the # voidspace mock object via the mock attribute: m.should_access.verify().and_return('bar') m.mock.verify() # => 'bar' m.verify()
These expectations expect the function prototype you give it:
m.should_access.rjust(5).and_return(' ') m.rjust() # => None - prototype does not match. m.rjust(5) # => ' ' m.verify() # will raise AssertionError because m.rjust() was called
Keyword arguments work just as well as args. There are several special arguments you can give for special operations.
args.ANYTHING accepts any arguments as valid, including no arguments:
from describe import args m.should_access.rjust(args.ANYTHING).and_return('anything works') m.rjust('foo', 'bar') # => 'anything works'
args.ANY_ARG accepts any single argument:
from describe import args m.should_access.rjust(args.ANY_ARG).and_return(4) m.rjust() # => None - is not one argument m.rjust(3) # => 4
Other special args include:
arg.ARGS - any non-keyword arguments
arg.KWARGS - any keyworded arguments
arg.an_instance_of(type) - any argument whos value matches the given type
arg.regexp - alias for arg.an_instance_of(type(re.compile(‘’))) for a regular expression type.
arg.includes_pair(key, value) - any argument who has a key and associated value.
arg.contains(item, *items) - any keys or items in the given list or dictionary.
arg.duck_type(*attributes) - any object that has all of the given attributes
You can also set expectations for getter properties:
m.should_access.score.and_return(23) m.score # => 23
Calling verify on every mock object you create is tiresome. Fortunately, each mock is added to a registry when instantiated. By default, they are added to the describe.mock.repository.default repository. You can call verify() on the repository to verify all mocks in it:
# create mocks: from describe import Mock, Value from describe.mock import repository for i in range(5): m = Mock() m.should_access.lower().and_return('bar') Value(m.lower()).should == 'bar' repository.default.verify() # will verify all mock objects we created above
Specs
The entire purpose of behavior driven development, is to remap the testing-based terminology to more specification driven ones. The Spec class is an alternative to unittest.TestCase, but you’ll need nose / sniffer to reap all the benefits.
Currently Specs inherit unittest.TestCase:
from describe import Spec, Mock from describ.args import * class DescribeRSpecExpectingArguments(Spec): def before(self): self.m = Mock() def it_should_expect_arguments(self): self.m.should_access.msg(1,2,3) self.m.msg(1,2,3) def it_should_expect_arguments_with_count(self): self.m.should_access.msg(1,2,3).once self.m.msg(1,2,3) def it_should_expect_no_arguments(self): self.m.should_access.msg() self.m.msg() def it_should_expect_any_arguments(self): self.m.should_access.msg(ANYTHING) self.m.msg(1,2,3,4,5,6)
Then use the SpecPlugin` for nose to run the specs, or run describe.main program.
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