I just released version 1.2 of Buttercup, the Behavior-Driven Emacs Lisp Testing framework.
Buttercup is a behavior-driven development framework for testing Emacs Lisp code. It is heavily inspired by Jasmine.
Installation and Use
Buttercup is available from MELPA Stable.
Example test suite:
(describe "A suite"
(it "contains a spec with an expectation"
(expect t :to-be t)))
Suites group tests, and suites can be nested. Contrary to ERT, suites can share set-up and tear-down code for tests, and Buttercup comes with built-in support for mocks in the form of spies. See the package homepage above for a full description of the syntax for test suites and specs.
Buttercup comes with a shell script to run the default discover runner. If used together with cask, cask exec buttercup will find, load and run test suites in your project.
Changes Since 1.1
- The :to-have-been-called-with matcher now shows the actual call arguments in addition to the expected ones to make it easier to figure out what went wrong.
- Interactive test calls now show the end of the output buffer to make it easier to see results, and do not change the selected window in case of errors anymore.
- Test discovery now does not accidentally load non-Lisp files anymore, and excludes dotfiles more reliably.
Many thanks to Matus Goljer for testing and bugfixes!