specify 0.0.8

A spec tool to describe your classes

Specify

A PHPSpec-like for Python. For fun only (for now). If you're looking for a real valid PHPSpec-like, you could check flowp (but deprecated). mamba could also interest you, even if it's not exactly what you are searching.

Install

pip install specify

Usage

You can check the examples folder.

from specify import ObjectBehavior
from examples.calculator import Calculator

class CalculatorSpec(ObjectBehavior):
    def _let(self):
        self._describe(Calculator)
        self._be_constructed_with('lorem', id=32)

    def it_adds_the_numbers(self):
        self.add(2, 3)._should_be(5)

The command python -m specify examples/spec/calculator_spec.py will render a valid TAP output (hopefully).

TAP version 13
1..1

ok 1 - CalculatorSpec: it adds the numbers

To have a nice and pretty output, you can then use a TAP formatter like faucet.

• All specifications must start by it_.

• All spec files must end by _spec for now.

Builtin matchers

Matcher	Details	Alias
_should_be	check with is	_should_return
_should_be_like	check with ==	_should_return_like
_should_not_be	check with is not	_should_not_return
_should_not_be_like	check with !=	_should_not_return_like
_should_be_an_instance_of	check with isinstance	_should_return_an_instance_of
_should_have_length	check with len(x)

Custom matchers

You can implement a _matchers function in your spec, to add custom matchers.

The key of the matcher is left trimmed by _should_ and the first argument passed to your function is the value itself.

If you return false, the test will fail.

Here is an example:

class CalculatorSpec(ObjectBehavior):
    # ...

    def it_adds_the_numbers(self):
        self.add(2, 3)._should_be_a_number()
        self.add(2, 3)._should_be_greater_than(10)

    def _matchers(self):
        def be_a_number(value, *args):
            return isinstance(value, int)

        def be_greater_than(value, expected_value):
            return value > expected_value

        return {
            'be_a_number': be_a_number,
            'be_greater_than': be_greater_than
        }

Fluent API

All matchers (builtin and custom) are chainable. Example:

self.add(2, 3)._should_be_a_number()._should_be(5)._should_be_greater_than(3)

Mocks

Thanks to prophepy (did you get the pun with prophecy? Hoho), you can easily mock things in a Prophecy way.

Given this Displayer class:

from .calculator import Calculator

class Displayer:
    def __init__(self, calculator: Calculator):
        self.calculator = calculator

    def display_addition(self, *args) -> str:
        total = str(self.calculator.add(*args))
        args = [str(arg) for arg in args]

        return f"{' + '.join(args)} = {total}"

Here is the spec, mocking the Calculator:

from specify import ObjectBehavior, mock
from examples.calculator import Calculator
from examples.displayer import Displayer

class DisplayerSpec(ObjectBehavior):

    @mock(Calculator)
    def _let(self, calculator):
        self._describe(Displayer)
        self._be_constructed_with(calculator)
        self.__calculator = calculator

    def it_displays_addition(self):
        self.__calculator.add(2, 3)._should_be_called()
        self.__calculator.add(2, 3)._will_return(5)
        self.display_addition(2, 3)._should_be_like('2 + 3 = 5')

Easy peasy.

TODO

• Handle attributes and not only methods
• Find a way to easily mock internal calls
• Add more matchers
• Make the tap output a stream as the spec say
• Improve the shitty way specs are loaded for now