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Testing with f#

You're reading from   Testing with f# Deliver high-quality, bug-free applications by testing them with efficient and expressive functional programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784391232
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Lundin Mikael Lundin
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Practice of Test Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Testable Code with Functional Programming 3. Setting Up Your Test Environment 4. Unit Testing 5. Integration Testing 6. Functional Testing 7. The Controversy of Test Automation 8. Testing in an Agile Context 9. Test Smells 10. The Ten Commandments of Test Automation Index

FsUnit

The current state of unit testing in F# is good. You can get all the major test frameworks running with little effort, but there is still something that feels a bit off with the way tests and asserts are expressed:

open NUnit.Framework
Assert.That(result, Is.EqualTo(42))

Using FsUnit, you can achieve much higher expressiveness in writing unit tests by simply reversing the way the assert is written:

open FsUnit
result |> should equal 42

Please refer to Chapter 3, Setting Up Your Test Environment, on how to set up a testing environment with FsUnit.

The FsUnit framework is not a test runner in itself, but uses an underlying test framework to execute. The underlying framework can be of MSTest, NUnit, or xUnit. FsUnit can best be explained as having a different structure and syntax while writing tests.

While this is a more dense syntax, the need for structure still exists and AAA is more needed more than ever. Consider the following test example:

[<Measure>] type EUR
[<Measure&gt...
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