Scala Language

Testing with ScalaTest

Hello World Spec Test

Create a testing class in the src/test/scala directory, in a file named HelloWorldSpec.scala. Put this inside the file:

import org.scalatest.{FlatSpec, Matchers}

class HelloWorldSpec extends FlatSpec with Matchers {

  "Hello World" should "not be an empty String" in {
      val helloWorld = "Hello World"
      helloWorld should not be ("")
  }
}

Spec Test Cheatsheet

Setup

The tests below uses these values for the examples.

val helloWorld = "Hello World"
val helloWorldCount = 1
val helloWorldList = List("Hello World", "Bonjour Le Monde")
def sayHello = throw new IllegalStateException("Hello World Exception")

Type check

To verify the type for a given val:

helloWorld shouldBe a [String]

Note that the brackets here are used to get type String.

Equal check

To test equality:

helloWorld shouldEqual "Hello World"
helloWorld should === ("Hello World")
helloWorldCount shouldEqual 1
helloWorldCount shouldBe 1
helloWorldList shouldEqual List("Hello World", "Bonjour Le Monde")
helloWorldList === List("Hello World", "Bonjour Le Monde")

Not Equal check

To test inequality:

helloWorld should not equal "Hello"
helloWorld !== "Hello"
helloWorldCount should not be 5
helloWorldList should not equal List("Hello World")
helloWorldList !== List("Hello World")
helloWorldList should not be empty

Length check

To verify length and/or size:

helloWorld should have length 11
helloWorldList should have size 2

Exceptions check

To verify the type and message of an exception:

val exception = the [java.lang.IllegalStateException] thrownBy {
  sayHello
}
exception.getClass shouldEqual classOf[java.lang.IllegalStateException]
exception.getMessage should include ("Hello World")

Include the ScalaTest Library with SBT

Using SBT to manage the library dependency, add this to build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "org.scalactic" %% "scalactic" % "3.0.0"
libraryDependencies += "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % "3.0.0" % "test"

More details can be found at the ScalaTest site.


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