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Testing Lisp

Gary King wrote an article not so recently about how to set up ASDF test-ops. I basically stole it, but have changed it a bit to work more intuitively (IMO). He arrives at the following test system definition:

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(defsystem moptilities-test
  :components ((:module "test"
                        :components ((:file "tests"))))
  :in-order-to ((test-op (load-op moptilities-test)))
  :perform (test-op :after (op c)
                    (describe (funcall (intern "RUN-TESTS" "LIFT")
                                       :suite (intern "TEST-MOPTILITIES"
                                                      "TEST-MOPTILITIES"))))
  :depends-on (moptilities lift))

(defmethod operation-done-p ((o test-op)
                             (c (eql (find-system 'moptilities-test))))
  (values nil))

However, it seems to me that (asdf:oos 'asdf:test-op :moptilities-test) should be testing the tests, not Moptilities. I would much prefer to see (asdf:oos 'asdf:test-op :moptilities), and this is possible with a little rearrangement.

You still need a test system, but it should be pretty minimal:

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(defsystem moptilities-test
  :components ((:module "test"
                        :components ((:file "tests"))))
  :depends-on (moptilities lift))

Then, the other pieces should be in the primary system:

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(defsystem moptilities
  :components (...)
  :in-order-to ((test-op (load-op moptilities-test)))
  :perform (test-op :after (op c)
                    (describe (funcall (intern "RUN-TESTS" :lift)
                                       :suite (intern "TEST-MOPTILITIES"
                                                      :moptilities-test))))
  :depends-on (...))

Yeah, in addition to moving things to the primary system, I also changed a couple strings to keywords … just a personal preference. Also, OPERATION-DONE-P should operate on the MOPTILITIES system, rather than MOPTILITIES-TEST. Oh, and I changed the package name from TEST-MOPTILITIES to MOPTILITIES-TEST. I?like to keep packages as nouns and functions as verbs.

I’m always searching through Gary’s archives to find this, and then re-remembering my variations, so this puts it all in one place for me (and maybe others) in the future. Leave a comment if you have any suggestions.

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2 Responses to “Testing Lisp”

  1. Koray Can Says:
    April 4th, 2006 at 19:29

    Off-topic:

    Got you the link to the shootout benchmarks: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/index.php

    It’s SBCL, but the cmucl faq says that the application speeds should be similar. Anyway, things don’t look so bright.

  2. evan Says:
    July 26th, 2006 at 21:33

    Hi,

    I found your blog entry very useful. Thank you !

    I also have one question:

    

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                   (describe (funcall (intern "RUN-TESTS" :lift)

    Why do you use that describe? The result I obtain when applying this is:

    NIL is an external symbol in #<package “COMMON-LISP”>. It is a constant; its value is NIL. NIL

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