Prime Tests with Named Setups
Explore how to organize Elixir tests using ExUnit's named setup functions and describe blocks. Understand the flow of test cases and how to share common setup code to reduce duplication. Learn to build maintainable and clear test suites by grouping tests with shared data using named setups.
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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 ...