Prime Tests with Named Setups
An introduction to named setups, another setup function that Elixir uses to test data.
We'll cover the following...
We’ve just seen the first type of setup function—fixtures. We’ll cover the next kind of reusable setup function in the following lessons, ExUnit’s named setup feature. To understand how it works, let’s take a more detailed look at the flow of a typical ExUnit test case.
Describe blocks
In version 1.3 of Elixir, the ExUnit.Case module added a describe block that has the following properties:
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Tests within a block can share a common setup code.
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When we specify a block of tests within a describe, we can also set the names of one or ...