Testing
Polylith encourages a test-centric approach when working with code. New brick tests are easy to write, and mocking can be avoided in most cases as we have access to all components from the projects they live in.
Let's go back to our example.
Nothing is marked to be tested at the moment, but if we change the
core namespace in the user component by adding an extra !, that should do the trick:(ns se.example.user.core)
(defn hello [name]
(str "Hello " name "!!"))
We can verify that the tool recognises the change by running the
diff command, which will give us this output:components/user/src/se/example/user/core.clj
...and if we run the
info command again:
...the
user component is now marked with an asterisk, *. If we look carefully we will also notice that the status flags stx under the cl column now has an x in its last position. As we already know, this means that the tests for user and cli will be executed from the command-line project if we execute the test command.But why is
cli marked to be tested? The reason is that even though cli itself hasn't changed, it depends on something that has, namely the user component.The columns under the
development project are all marked as st-. The reason the development project is not marked to be tested is that the development project's tests are not included by default.But before we run the test command, we should first add a test by editing the
interface-test namespace in the user component:(ns se.example.user.interface-test
(:require [clojure.test :refer :all]
[se.example.user.interface :as user]))
(deftest hello--when-called-with-a-name--then-return-hello-phrase
(is (= "Hello Lisa!"
(user/hello "Lisa"))))
Now we can run the test from the IDE:
- Make sure the namespace is loaded, e.g. via the menu (or keyboard shortcuts)
Tools > REPL > Load File in REPL - Run the test, e.g:
- Run all tests in the current namespace:
Tools > REPL > Run Tests in Current NS in REPL - Or, place the cursor under the test and run:
Tools > REPL > Run Test under carret in REPL
Oops, the test failed!
poly test
...it fails here too:
Projects to run tests from: command-line
Running tests for the command-line project using test runner: Polylith built-in clojure.test runner...
Running tests from the command-line project, including 2 bricks: user, cli
Testing se.example.cli.core-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing se.example.user.interface-test
FAIL in (hello--when-called-with-a-name--then-return-hello-phrase) (interface_test.clj:6)
expected: (= "Hello Lisa!" (user/hello "Lisa"))
actual: (not (= "Hello Lisa!" "Hello Lisa!!"))
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
1 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 0 passes, 1 failures, 0 errors.
Remember that we added an extra
! so now we need to update the corresponding test accordingly:(ns se.example.user.interface-test
(:require [clojure.test :refer :all]
[se.example.user.interface :as user]))
(deftest hello--when-called-with-a-name--then-return-hello-phrase
(is (= "Hello Lisa!!"
(user/hello "Lisa"))))
If we run the test again from the REPL, it will now turn to green:
...and the
test command will pass too:Projects to run tests from: command-line
Running tests for the command-line project using test runner: Polylith built-in clojure.test runner...
Running tests from the command-line project, including 2 bricks: user, cli
Testing se.example.cli.core-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing se.example.user.interface-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Execution time: x seconds
We have already mentioned that the brick tests will not be executed from the
development project when we run the test command. But there is a way to do that, and that is to pass in :dev.Let's try it out with the
info command first:poly info :dev
Now both the
development and the command-line project is marked for test execution. Note: In version 0.2.13-alpha and earlier,project:devwas an alias for:dev, which meant that it behaved the same as passing inproject:devand as a result, it only included development in the test execution.From version 0.2.14-alpha and later, this has changed so that:devmeans "also include development" without excluding any other projects. Another difference is thatpoly test :all project:p1in 0.2.13-alpha ran all tests for all projects (because we passed in:all) but from version 0.2.14-alpha that statement means "run all tests for project p1".
We can narrow the number of projects we want to test by passing in e.g.
project:dev or project:cl:dev (both project alias and name can be used). If development is given, it will automatically be included as if :dev was passed in:poly info project:dev
Here we include both projects:
poly info project:cl:dev
It's not just possible to filter which projects to run our tests from, but also which bricks to include.
Right now our workspace looks like this:
poly info
Both bricks in the
cl project are marked to be tested.If we select the
cli brick:poly info brick:cli
...now only that brick is marked to be tested.
Let's pretend that no bricks were marked to be tested:
If we run the same command again:
poly info brick:cli
...we get the same result, and that's because the
brick:cli parameter is just a filter that is applied after the other status calculations have been performed.If we want to force the
cli tests to be executed, we need to pass in :all-bricks (or :all if we also want to execute the project tests):poly info brick:cli :all-bricks
Finally, the
cli brick is now marked to be tested!It's also possible to give more than one brick, e.g.
brick:cli:user. Another trick we can do is to exclude all bricks with brick:- which can be useful in combination with :project or :all to execute only the project tests.Before we execute any tests, let's add a project test for the
command-line project.Begin by adding a
test directory for the command-line project:example
├── projects
│ └── command-line
│ └── test
Then add the "test" path to
projects/command-line/deps.edn: :aliases {:test {:extra-paths ["test"]
:extra-deps {}}
...and to
./deps.edn: :test {:extra-paths ["components/user/test"
"bases/cli/test"
"projects/command-line/test"]}
Now add the
project.command-line.dummy-test namespace to the command-line project:example
├── projects
│ └── command-line
│ └── test
│ └── project
│ └──command_line
│ └──dummy_test.clj
(ns project.command-line.dummy-test
(:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))
(deftest dummy-test
(is (= 1 1)))
We could have chosen another top namespace, e.g.,
se.example.project.command-line, as long as we don't have any brick with the name project. But because we don't want to get into any name conflicts with bricks and also because each project is executed in isolation, the choice of namespace is less important and here we choose the project.command-line top namespace to keep it simple.Normally, we are forced to put our tests in the same namespace as the code we want to test, to get proper access, but in Polylith the encapsulation is guaranteed by the
poly tool and all code can therefore be declared public, which allows us to put the test code wherever we want.If we execute the
info command:
...the
command-line is marked as changed and flagged as -t- telling us that it now has a test directory. The -t- says that it has been added to the development project. The reason it's not tagged as -tx is that project tests are not marked to be executed without explicitly telling them to, by passing in :project.poly info :project
Now the
command-line project is also marked to be tested. Let's verify that by running the tests:poly test :project
Projects to run tests from: command-line
Running tests for the command-line project using test runner: Polylith built-in clojure.test runner...
Running tests from the command-line project, including 2 bricks and 1 project: user, cli, command-line
Testing se.example.cli.core-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing se.example.user.interface-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing project.command-line.dummy_test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Execution time: 1 seconds
They passed!
As you have just seen, with Polylith we can add tests at two different levels: brick and project.
The project tests should be used for our slow tests, e.g. tests that take more than 100 milliseconds to execute, or whatever we draw the line, to keep our fast brick tests fast enough to give us a really fast feedback loop. The project tests also give us a way to write tailor-made tests that are unique per project.
The second category is the brick tests. To keep the feedback loop short, we should only put fast-running tests in our bricks. This will give us a faster feedback loop, because the brick tests are the ones that are executed when we run
poly test while the project tests are not.But does that mean we are only allowed to put unit tests in our bricks? No. As long as the tests are fast (by e.g. using in-memory databases) they should be put in the bricks they belong to.
Before we continue, let's commit what we have done so far and mark the workspace as stable:
git add --all
git commit -m "Added tests"
git tag -f stable-lisa
If we execute the
info command again:
...the
* signs are now gone and nothing is marked to be tested.The tool only executes tests if a brick is directly or indirectly changed. A way to force it to test all bricks is to pass in
:all-bricks:poly info :all-bricks
Now all the brick tests are marked to be executed, except for the
development project. To include dev, also add :dev:poly info :all-bricks :dev
To include all brick and project tests (except
dev) we can type:poly info :all
...to also include dev, type:
poly info :all :dev
Running the brick tests from the
development projects are something we don't normally need to do, but it's good to know that it's supported.Now let's see if it actually works:
poly test :all :dev
Projects to run tests from: command-line, development
Running tests for the command-line project using test runner: Polylith built-in clojure.test runner...
Running tests from the command-line project, including 2 bricks and 1 project: user, cli, command-line
Testing se.example.cli.core-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing se.example.user.interface-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing project.command-line.dummy_test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Running tests for the development project using test runner: Polylith built-in clojure.test runner...
Running tests from the development project, including 2 bricks and 1 project: user, cli, command-line
Testing se.example.cli.core-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing se.example.user.interface-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Execution time: x seconds
Looks like it worked!
Sometimes we need to perform some test setup/teardown before and after we execute the tests for a project.
If any code is used by more than one project, we can put it in a separate component, but in this case we should put it in the
command-line project's test directory because it's not used by any other project.Let's create a
test-setup namespace in the project's test directory and add two functions to it:example
├── projects
│ └── command-line
│ └── test
│ └── project
│ └──command_line
│ └──test_setup.clj
(ns project.command-line.test-setup
(:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))
(defn setup [project-name]
(println (str "--- test setup for " project-name " ---")))
(defn teardown [project-name]
(println (str "--- test teardown for " project-name " ---")))
We need to keep two things in mind:
- Make sure the source code which contains our function, is accessible from the project it's executed from (the
command-lineproject in this case). Here the project's owntestdirectory was already added earlier by thecreate projectcommand, so we are fine. - Make sure the functions take exactly one parameter, the project name.
We also need to specify the two functions in
workspace.edn: ...
:projects {"development" {:alias "dev"}
"command-line" {:alias "cl"
:test {:setup-fn project.command-line.test-setup/setup
:teardown-fn project.command-line.test-setup/teardown}}}}
If we don't need the tear-down function, we can leave it out.
Let's run our tests:
poly test :all
Projects to run tests from: command-line
Running test setup for the command-line project: project.command-line.test-setup/test-setup
--- test setup for command-line ---
Running tests for the command-line project using test runner: Polylith built-in clojure.test runner...
Running tests from the command-line project, including 2 bricks and 1 project: user, cli, command-line
Testing se.example.cli.core-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing se.example.user.interface-test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing project.command-line.test-setup
Ran 0 tests containing 0 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 0 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Testing project.command-line.dummy_test
Ran 1 tests containing 1 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
Test results: 1 passes, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Running test teardown for the command-line project: project.command-line.test-setup/test-teardown
--- test teardown for command-line ---
Execution time: 1 seconds
Nice, it worked!
Let's summarise the different ways to run the tests. The brick tests are executed from all projects they belong to except for the development project (if
:dev is not passed in):Command | Tests to execute |
poly test | All brick tests that are directly or indirectly changed. |
poly test :project | All brick tests that are directly or indirectly changed + tests for changed projects. |
poly test :all‑bricks | All brick tests. |
poly test :all | All brick tests + all project tests (except development), executed from all projects. |
To also execute the brick tests from the development project, pass in
:dev:poly test :dev | All brick tests that are directly or indirectly changed, executed from all projects (development included). |
poly test :project :dev | All brick tests that are directly or indirectly changed, executed from all projects (development included) + tests for changed projects (development included). |
poly test :all‑bricks :dev | All brick tests, executed from all projects (development included). |
poly test :all :dev | All brick tests, executed from all projects (development included) + all project tests (development included). |
Projects can also be explicitly selected with e.g.
project:proj1 or project:proj1:proj2.We can also filter which bricks to run the tests for with e.g.
brick:b1 or brick:b1:b2.These arguments can also be passed into the
info command, as we have done in the examples above, to get a view of which tests will be executed.Finally, there is a way to restrict what test code to include for a project, by giving a list of bricks. This can be specified in
workspace.edn, e.g.:{...
:projects {"development" {:alias "dev", :test []}
"command-line" {:alias "cl",
:test {:include ["cli]
:setup-fn se.example.test-helper.interface/setup
:teardown-fn se.example.test-helper.interface/teardown}}}}
...or by using this syntax:
{...
:projects {"development" {:alias "dev", :test {:include []}
"command-line" {:alias "cl", :test {:include ["cli"]}}}
If we run the
info command with these settings:poly info :all :dev
...the test source code will no longer be included in the development project, and only
cli is included for the command-line project. This can be useful when we don't want to run the same brick tests from all our projects, as a way to get a faster test suit.Note that if the tests directory for a brick is excluded from a project like this, they will never be tested from that project even if we pass in
:all.Let's start with the development project. The main purpose of this project is to allow us to work with our code from an IDE using a single REPL. When doing that, the project must be set up in a way that it's 100% compatible with tool.deps and the IDE integration. This is also the reason we have to add the test paths explicitly in
./deps.edn, which gives us access to the tests from the REPL.To give us access to the
src and resources paths from the REPL, we often add them as :extra-paths because we want to make sure that the IDE integration will work in all the development environments on the market.Note: At the time of writing, adding bricks todevelopmentusing the:local/rootsyntax works fine in VSCode/Calva and Emacs/CIDER, but unfortunately not in IDEA/Cursive, see this issue. However, if your organisation doesn't use Cursive, it should be fine to use the:local/rootsyntax even for the development project.
The
./deps.edn config file sets up all our paths and dependencies, and when we include the dev and test aliases (and sometimes profile aliases, described in the next section) we inform tools.deps what source code and libraries should be accessible from our IDE and REPL. When this is set up correctly, we are also able to run our tests from the REPL, which will have access to all test and src code. Libraries that are defined in the src context will therefore automatically be accessible when running the tests. Additional libraries that are only used from the tests should be defined in the test context.When we run the
test command, the tool will detect which components, bases and projects have been affected since the last stable point in time. Based on this information, it will go through all the affected projects, one at a time, and run the component, base, and project tests that are included in each project. This set of tests will be executed in isolation from its own classloader which will speed up the test execution and make it more reliable. Libraries from both the
src and test context (and libraries that they depend on) will be used when the tests are executed. If :verbose is given when running the tests, the libraries and paths that are being used will be printed out. The development project can also be used to run tests, but that's not its main purpose.If the projects A, B, C and D are included in the test run and if a test in B fails (or a project setup or teardown) then the whole test run will stop, and no tests are executed for C or D.
The libraries to use in each project when running the
poly test command is the sum of all library dependencies that are defined in all the components and bases (either indirectly via local/root or directly by using :deps/extra-deps). If a library is defined more than once in the set of bricks and projects, then the latest version of that library will be used, if not overridden by :override-deps in the project.At the project level we only need to define the libraries that are not defined in the included bricks (specified by its
:deps key) which can be libraries like clojure itself, org.clojure/clojure, that we don't want to repeat in all our bricks.If we have a brick like
datomic-ions, we can specify which repository it needs, like this. We can verify that the repo is picked up by the brick by executing poly ws get:components:datomic-ions:maven-repos:{"datomic-cloud" {:url "s3://datomic-releases-1fc2183a/maven/releases"}}
...and used by the
invoicing project by executing poly ws get:projects:invoicing:maven-repos:{"central" {:url "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/"},
"clojars" {:url "https://repo.clojars.org/"},
"datomic-cloud" {:url "s3://datomic-releases-1fc2183a/maven/releases"}}
Every project that uses the
datomic-ions brick will now also include the datomic-cloud repository.The poly tool started to support test runners since version 0.2.15. There is a default test runner which uses Clojure's default testing framework to run the tests as an in-process test runner.
It's possible to create and use our own custom test runner(s) with the poly tool. There are two types of test runners; in-process and external. Polylith provides us with two protocols,
TestRunner and ExternalTestRunner. We can use them to easily plug our custom test runner(s) into the poly tool.As you already learned, the poly tool can run our tests incrementally. It creates an isolated classloader for each project and runs our tests within that classloader. The idea is to speed up the execution time by running the tests in the same process with minimal overhead.
The default in-process test runner and custom in-process test runners use the isolated classloader approach we just described. The poly tool will figure out which bricks and projects are affected, calculate the classpath for each project, create an isolated classloader, and pass it to the test runner for execution.
The alternative to the in-process isolated classloader approach is to execute each project's tests in a separate external Java subprocess. The advantage of this approach is that you have complete control of the test execution, and the memory is released after each project. If you have issues with the in-process approach, then this type of test runner is the right way to go.
An external test runner will use external Java subprocesses to run the tests. The poly tool will still figure out the changed bricks and projects and calculate the classpath for each project. However, the external test runner will create a runtime and run the tests. Another difference is that the poly tool will not run the setup and teardown functions for the tests.
The external test runner must run setup and teardown functions within the external process it creates. The poly tool will not run them for external test runners.
🧐 | In-Proces Test Runner | External Test Runner |
|---|---|---|
Context | Isolated project context | Isolated project context |
Approach | Isolated in-process classloaders | Isolated Java subprocesses |
Speed | Fast | Some overhead per project |
Memory usage | Memory is released when the whole test run has finished | Memory is released after each project's test run |
Setup & Teardown | Handled by the poly tool | Handled by the test runner |
Special arguments | class-loadereval-in-project | process-ns |
Additional functions | N/A | external-process-namespace |
(defprotocol TestRunner
"Implement this protocol to supply a custom test runner.
Runner options:
`is-verbose` -> A boolean indicating if we are running in verbose mode
or not. TestRunner can use this to print additional
information about the test run.
`color-mode` -> The color-mode that the poly tool is currently running with.
TestRunner is expected to respect the color mode.
`project` -> A map containing the project information.
`all-paths` -> A vector of all paths necessary to create a classpath for
running the tests in isolation within the context of the
current project.
`setup-fn` -> An optional setup function for tests defined in the
workspace config. The poly tool will run this function
before calling run-tests only if this is an in-process
TestRunner. If this is an ExternalTestRunner, the external
test runner should run the setup-fn.
`teardown-fn` -> An optional teardown function for tests defined in the
workspace config. The poly tool will run this function
after the run-tests function completes (exception or not),
only if this is an in-process TestRunner. If this is an
ExternalTestRunner, the external test runner should run
the teardown-fn.
Additional options for in-process TestRunner:
`class-loader` -> The isolated classloader created from the `all-paths`.
This classloader will be used to evaluate statements within
the project's context. Use this if you need more granular
access. `eval-in-project` should be sufficient for most
cases.
`eval-in-project` -> A function that takes a single form as its argument and
evaluates it within the project's classloader. It returns
the result of the evaluation. This is the primary interface
for running tests in the project's isolated context.
Additional options for ExternalTestRunner:
`process-ns` -> The main namespace of the external test runner. This
namespace will be invoked as a Java subprocess.
Usage:
Create a constructor function that returns an instance of TestRunner or
ExternalTestRunner:
```
(defn create [{:keys [workspace changes project test-settings
is-verbose color-mode]}]
...
(reify TestRunner ...)
; Optional, only if you want an external test runner
(reify ExternalTestRunner ...))
```
`workspace` passed to the constructor will contain `:user-input`, which
can be used to receive additional parameters for runtime configuration.
Add your constructor function in the workspace.edn. To add a single global
test runner, use the `:test` key:
{:test {:create-test-runner my.namespace/create}
:projects {\"project-a\" {:alias \"a\"}
\"project-b\" {:alias \"b\"}}}
To add a multiple global test runners, use the vector variant inside the
`:test` key. The following example will add three test runners globally
where the last one is the default test runner.
{:test {:create-test-runner [my.namespace/create se.example/create :default]}
:projects {\"project-a\" {:alias \"a\"}
\"project-b\" {:alias \"b\"}}}
To add a custom test runner for a specific project, use the `:test` key
in the project configuration. You can also add multiple test runners with
using the vector variant.
{:projects {\"project-a\" {:alias \"a\"
:test {:create-test-runner my.namespace/create}}
\"project-b\" {:alias \"b\"
:test {:create-test-runner [my.namespace/create
:default]}}}}
Adding a test runner definition to a project will override the global test
runner. The project-a will use the global test runner, `my.namespace/create`
whereas project-b will use the default test runner.
{:test {:create-test-runner my.namespace/create}
:projects {\"project-a\" {:alias \"a\"}
\"project-b\" {:alias \"b\"
:test {:create-test-runner :default}}}}"
(test-runner-name [this]
"Returns a printable name that the poly tool can print out for
information purposes")
(test-sources-present? [this]
"The poly tool calls this first before attempting to run any tests. If
it returns a falsy value, we short-circuit. Not even the project
classloader will be created")
(tests-present? [this runner-opts]
"The poly tool calls this before calling the run-tests. If it returns a
falsy value, run-tests won't be called. The runner-opts passed to this
function is identical to the one passed to the run-tests. It can evaluate
forms in the project's context.")
(run-tests [this runner-opts]
"It should run the tests and throw an exception if the test run is considered
failed."))
(defprotocol ExternalTestRunner
"Extends the `TestRunner` protocol to provide an external process namespace
for a test runner. Polylith uses a classloader approach to run tests in
isolation by default. `ExternalTestRunner` skips the classloaders and uses
Java subprocesses."
(external-process-namespace [this]
"Returns a symbol or string identifying the main namespace of an external
test runner. If it returns nil (default), the test runner will be an
in-process test runner and the tests will run in an isolated classloader
within the same process.
When an external test runner is used, the poly tool will not create a
classloader. The external test runner implementation should use the
`all-paths` argument passed to the run-tests function to create a classpath
for the Java subprocesses.
The setup-fn and teardown-fn must be run by the external test runner
instead of the poly tool."))
To implement your custom test runner, create a single-arity constructor function that reifies the
TestRunner protocol. Optionally, you can also reify the ExternalTestRunner protocol if you want to make an external test runner.(ns se.example.example-test-runner)
...
(defn create [{:keys [workspace project test-settings is-verbose color-mode changes]}]
...
(reify
test-runner-contract/TestRunner
(test-runner-name [this] ...)
(test-sources-present? [this] ...)
(tests-present? [this runner-opts] ...)
(run-tests [this runner-opts] ...)
; Optional, only if you want an external test runner
test-runner-contract/ExternalTestRunner
(external-process-namespace [this] ...)))
The poly tool will call your constructor function to get an instance of your test runner. The constructor function will receive a map as the single argument. This map contains the following:
Map Key | Description |
|---|---|
:workspace | The workspace map. This map contains :user-input which can be used to receive additional parameters for runtime configuration. |
:project | A map that contains the details of the project that is currently being tested. |
:test-settings | Test settings for the project that is currently being tested. This information is extracted from the workspace.edn |
:is-verbose | A boolean indicates if we are running in verbose mode or not. |
:color-mode | The color mode that the poly tool is currently running with. |
:changes | A map of changes since the last stable point in time. |
To use a test runner in your workspace, you have to add it to the classpath that you are running the poly tool to run the tests. An ideal place to do it is the
:poly alias in your workspace deps.edn file:{:aliases
{:poly
{:extra-deps
{polylith/clj-poly
{:mvn/version "INSERT_LATEST_VERSION_HERE"}
se.example/example-test-runner
{:git/url "https://github.com/my-company/example-test-runner"
:git/sha "INSERT_COMMIT_SHA_HERE"
:deps/root "projects/example-test-runner"}}}}}
The example above assumes that you use a test runner from a GitHub repository as a git dependency. You can also have your custom test runner within the same Polylith workspace and depend on it via
:local/root.Once you have your test runner in the classpath, you can add it to your workspace configuration so that the poly tool can use it instead of the default test runner. You can add global test runners, which the poly tool will use for every project unless the project-specific test configuration overrides it. To add a global test configuration, add a map with the
:test key in your workspace.edn file:{...
; Global test configuration, used as default for every project.
:test {:create-test-runner [se.example.example-test-runner/create]}
; Project specific configurations
:projects {"foo" {:alias "foo"}
"bar" {:alias "barr"}
"baz" {:alias "baz"}}}
You can specify more than one test runner. In that case, all the test runners will run for the project one after another.
You can also define test runners per project. The test runners specified for the project will be used instead of the global test runner if any. You can add a
:test key in the project's configuration to select project-specific test runners:{...
; Global test configuration, used as default for every project.
:test {:create-test-runner [se.example.example-test-runner/create]}
; Project specific configurations
:projects {"foo" {:alias "foo"
; Use another test runner only for this project
:test {:create-test-runner [se.example.another-test-runner/create]}}
"bar" {:alias "bar"
; Use the default test runner instead of the global
:test {:create-test-runner [:default]}}
"baz" {:alias "bz"
; Use both default and the example test runner for this project
:test {:create-test-runner [:default
se.example.example-test-runner/create]}}}}
License: MIT
An external (subprocess) test runner for Polylith. Avoids classloader, daemon thread, and memory usage issues by running tests in a subprocess with only Clojure itself as a dependency.
License: Apache-2.0
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