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lattejiu
lattejiu

Reputation: 119

Haskell: Multiple Assertions in Unit Testing?

I looked up a similar topic and found this snippet of code from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21419654/14386048

To quote:
Let's assume that we have module SafePrelude.hs:

module SafePrelude where

safeHead :: [a] -> Maybe a
safeHead []    = Nothing
safeHead (x:_) = Just x

we can put tests into TestSafePrelude.hs as follows:

module TestSafePrelude where

import Test.HUnit
import SafePrelude

testSafeHeadForEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList = 
    TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                           Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))

testSafeHeadForNonEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForNonEmptyList =
    TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return (Just head) for non empty list" (Just 1)
               (safeHead ([1]::[Int]))

main :: IO Counts
main = runTestTT $ TestList [testSafeHeadForEmptyList, testSafeHeadForNonEmptyList]

-- End Quote --
Is it possible to have multiple assertions within, let's say, testSafeHeadForEmptyList? I'm trying to categorize my test samples of similar cases, but just different variations. I want to avoid something like this below (assume each assert equal has a different variation, but all should return nothing, for example):

testSafeHeadForEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList = 
    TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                           Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
testSafeHeadForEmptyList2 :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList2 = 
    TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                           Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
...
testSafeHeadForEmptyList99 :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList99 = 
    TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                           Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))

Is this possible in Haskell?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 469

Answers (1)

Random Dev
Random Dev

Reputation: 52270

If you look carefully here: Test - you see that TestCase and TestList are data-constructors of the Test type - so you should be able to do something like this:

testSafeHeadForEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList = TestList $
    [ TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                             Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    , TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                             Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    ...
    , TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                             Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    ]

or even fmap the TestCase-constructor if you like:

testSafeHeadForEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList = TestList $ fmap TestCase
    [ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                  Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    , assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                  Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    ...
    , assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                  Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    ]

and of course TestLabel is a constructor as well so you can stick a Label to it:

testSafeHeadForEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList = 
  TestLabel "safe head for empty list" $ TestList $ fmap TestCase
    [ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                  Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    , assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                  Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    ...
    , assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                  Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))
    ]

(you could use (~:) for that too of course)

Upvotes: 3

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