laboratory

A simple, expressive unit test framework for Rust

Checkout the documentation and the extensive examples over on github.

Laboratory is layer 2 test runner solution that sits on top of the Rust test runner to provide unparalleled features and ease of use.

Features

• before_all, before_each, after_all, after_each hooks
• Different reporter options: spec, minimal, json, json-pretty, rust, dot, tap, list
• Reports test durations in: nanoseconds, microseconds, milliseconds and seconds
• The use of custom assertion libraries
• Exclude tests
• Nested test suites
• Test retry support
• The use of state
• "should panic" testing
• Console highlighting
• Dynamic testing
• Highlights slow tests
• No weird macros to try to figure out or debug!
• Human readable code and test results

Installation

In Cargo.toml:

[dev-dependencies]
laboratory = "*"

Then in your test files

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use laboratory::{describe, describe_skip, it, it_skip, it_only, expect};
}

Getting Started

Testing a simple function

// from examples/simple.rs
//###SIMPLE###//

Then run: ```shell script $ cargo test -- --nocapture

Result:  

//###SIMPLE-RESULT###// ```