[erlang-questions] Eunit question...

Bryan Hughes bryan@REDACTED
Sun Nov 6 22:32:51 CET 2011


This is perfect!  Thank you.  I was trying to get the setup fixture 
pattern inside the timeout tuple, which just quietly ended tests.

It's really great to have such a helpful and active community - very 
much appreciated!

Regards,
Bryan


On 11/6/11 1:16 PM, Gianfranco Alongi wrote:
> Sorry, seems like I got double paste in there, second paste should
> have been demo.erl
>
> -module(demo).
> -export([a/0]).
> a() ->
>      timer:sleep(10000),
>      ok.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Gianfranco Alongi
> <gianfranco.alongi@REDACTED>  wrote:
>> You put the timeout in the Tests.
>>
>> -module(demo_tests).
>> -include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
>> timeout_setup_test_() ->
>>      {setup,
>>       fun() ->  ok end,
>>       fun(_) ->  ok end,
>>       {timeout,20,
>>        fun() ->  ok = demo:a() end}}.
>>
>>
>> -module(demo_tests).
>> -include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
>> timeout_setup_test_() ->
>>      {setup,
>>       fun() ->  ok end,
>>       fun(_) ->  ok end,
>>       {timeout,20,
>>        fun() ->  ok = demo:a() end}}.
>>
>>
>> erlc *.erl
>> erl
>> eunit:test(demo).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Bryan Hughes<bryan@REDACTED>  wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> Hoping someone might be able to help me understand how to set up a unit test
>>> with EUnit which needs both timeout and fixture setup/cleanup.  I find the
>>> documentation a bit challenging on this particular aspec.
>>>
>>> For example, according to the documentation for using the fixture pattern:
>>>
>>> {setup, Setup, Tests | Instantiator}
>>> {setup, Setup, Cleanup, Tests | Instantiator}
>>> {setup, Where, Setup, Tests | Instantiator}
>>> {setup, Where, Setup, Cleanup, Tests | Instantiator}
>>>
>>>
>>> So my normal tests look like:
>>>
>>> my_test_() ->
>>>      {setup,
>>>       fun setup/0,
>>>       fun cleanup/1,
>>>       ?_test(begin
>>>                  ...
>>>              end)}.
>>>
>>> For using adjusting the timeout, the documentation describes this pattern:
>>>
>>> {timeout, Time::number(), Tests}
>>>
>>> I have not been able to figure out how to craft my test.  Unfortunately my
>>> variations just fail, or just quietly end without running any of the
>>> remaining tests for the module.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!!!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bryan
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