Thanks Sean. On 6 October 2016 at 19:03, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: >> is there a 'benefits over clojure.test' blog anywhere? > > Not that I’m aware of. I added a GH issue against the website content for > that. Jay wrote a series of blog posts about Expectations back in 2011 that > included the justification for it: > > http://blog.jayfields.com/2011/11/clojure-expectations-introduction.html > >> I wonder if it is the benefits are more subjective > > Yes, I find the BDD-style of Expectations much more to my liking than the > assertive style of clojure.test – the latter feels very imperative to me. So > there’s definitely an element of stylistic preference at play here. > >> I personally like the names I give to tests etc. > > Jay has an opinion on that – see > http://blog.jayfields.com/2011/11/clojure-expectations-unit-testing-wrap.html > > I’m split on the topic. There’s a practical reason for giving tests names, > and that relates to tooling and, in particular, what CIDER and other tools > expect (and in fact that is what has triggered this whole re-launching: in > order to better support tooling at large, Expectations needs to provide a way > to give predictable names to tests so that tooling can run and re-run > individual tests). > > Sean > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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