deno/std/testing

Testing

This module provides a few basic utilities to make testing easier and consistent in Deno.

Usage

testing/asserts.ts module provides range of assertion helpers. If the assertion is false an AssertionError will be thrown which will result in pretty-printed diff of failing assertion.

• equal() - Deep comparison function, where actual and expected are compared deeply, and if they vary, equal returns false.
• assert() - Expects a boolean value, throws if the value is false.
• assertEquals() - Uses the equal comparison and throws if the actual and expected are not equal.
• assertNotEquals() - Uses the equal comparison and throws if the actual and expected are equal.
• assertStrictEquals() - Compares actual and expected strictly, therefore for non-primitives the values must reference the same instance.
• assertStringContains() - Make an assertion that actual contains expected.
• assertMatch() - Make an assertion that actual match RegExp expected.
• assertArrayContains() - Make an assertion that actual array contains the expected values.
• assertThrows() - Expects the passed fn to throw. If fn does not throw, this function does. Also compares any errors thrown to an optional expected Error class and checks that the error .message includes an optional string.
• assertThrowsAsync() - Expects the passed fn to be async and throw (or return a Promise that rejects). If the fn does not throw or reject, this function will throw asynchronously. Also compares any errors thrown to an optional expected Error class and checks that the error .message includes an optional string.
• unimplemented() - Use this to stub out methods that will throw when invoked
• unreachable() - Used to assert unreachable code

Basic usage:

import { assertEquals } from "https://deno.land/std/testing/asserts.ts";

Deno.test({
  name: "testing example",
  fn(): void {
    assertEquals("world", "world");
    assertEquals({ hello: "world" }, { hello: "world" });
  },
});

Short syntax (named function instead of object):

Deno.test("example", function (): void {
  assertEquals("world", "world");
  assertEquals({ hello: "world" }, { hello: "world" });
});

Using assertStrictEquals():

Deno.test("isStrictlyEqual", function (): void {
  const a = {};
  const b = a;
  assertStrictEquals(a, b);
});

// This test fails
Deno.test("isNotStrictlyEqual", function (): void {
  const a = {};
  const b = {};
  assertStrictEquals(a, b);
});

Using assertThrows():

Deno.test("doesThrow", function (): void {
  assertThrows((): void => {
    throw new TypeError("hello world!");
  });
  assertThrows((): void => {
    throw new TypeError("hello world!");
  }, TypeError);
  assertThrows(
    (): void => {
      throw new TypeError("hello world!");
    },
    TypeError,
    "hello"
  );
});

// This test will not pass
Deno.test("fails", function (): void {
  assertThrows((): void => {
    console.log("Hello world");
  });
});

Using assertThrowsAsync():

Deno.test("doesThrow", async function (): Promise<void> {
  await assertThrowsAsync(
    async (): Promise<void> => {
      throw new TypeError("hello world!");
    }
  );
  await assertThrowsAsync(async (): Promise<void> => {
    throw new TypeError("hello world!");
  }, TypeError);
  await assertThrowsAsync(
    async (): Promise<void> => {
      throw new TypeError("hello world!");
    },
    TypeError,
    "hello"
  );
  await assertThrowsAsync(
    async (): Promise<void> => {
      return Promise.reject(new Error());
    }
  );
});

// This test will not pass
Deno.test("fails", async function (): Promise<void> {
  await assertThrowsAsync(
    async (): Promise<void> => {
      console.log("Hello world");
    }
  );
});

Benching

With this module you can benchmark your code and get information on how is it performing.

Basic usage:

Benchmarks can be registered using the bench function, where you can define a code, that should be benchmarked. b.start() has to be called at the start of the part you want to benchmark and b.stop() at the end of it, otherwise an error will be thrown.

After that simply calling runBenchmarks() will benchmark all registered benchmarks and log the results in the commandline.

import { runBenchmarks, bench } from "https://deno.land/std/testing/bench.ts";

bench(function forIncrementX1e9(b): void {
  b.start();
  for (let i = 0; i < 1e9; i++);
  b.stop();
});

runBenchmarks();

Averaging execution time over multiple runs:

bench({
  name: "runs100ForIncrementX1e6",
  runs: 100,
  func(b): void {
    b.start();
    for (let i = 0; i < 1e6; i++);
    b.stop();
  },
});

Running specific benchmarks using regular expressions:

runBenchmarks({ only: /desired/, skip: /exceptions/ });

Processing benchmark results

runBenchmarks() returns a Promise<BenchmarkRunResult>, so you can process the benchmarking results yourself. It contains detailed results of each benchmark's run as BenchmarkResult s.

runBenchmarks()
  .then((results: BenchmarkRunResult) => {
    console.log(results);
  })
  .catch((error: Error) => {
    // ... errors if benchmark was badly constructed
  });

Processing benchmarking progress

runBenchmarks() accepts an optional progress handler callback function, so you can get information on the progress of the running benchmarking.

Using { silent: true } means you wont see the default progression logs in the commandline.

runBenchmarks({ silent: true }, (p: BenchmarkRunProgress) => {
  // initial progress data
  if (p.state === ProgressState.BenchmarkingStart) {
    console.log(
      `Starting benchmarking. Queued: ${p.queued.length}, filtered: ${p.filtered}`
    );
  }
  // ...
});

Benching API

bench(benchmark: BenchmarkDefinition | BenchmarkFunction): void

Registers a benchmark that will be run once runBenchmarks is called.

runBenchmarks(opts?: BenchmarkRunOptions, progressCb?: (p: BenchmarkRunProgress) => void | Promise<void>): Promise<BenchmarkRunResult>

Runs all registered benchmarks serially. Filtering can be applied by setting BenchmarkRunOptions.only and/or BenchmarkRunOptions.skip to regular expressions matching benchmark names. Default progression logs can be turned off with the BenchmarkRunOptions.silent flag.

clearBenchmarks(opts?: BenchmarkClearOptions): void

Clears all registered benchmarks, so calling runBenchmarks() after it wont run them. Filtering can be applied by setting BenchmarkRunOptions.only and/or BenchmarkRunOptions.skip to regular expressions matching benchmark names.