Clojure JIRA http://dev.clojure.org/jira This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 4.4 649 25-07-2011 [CLJ-840] Add a way to access the current test var in :each fixtures for clojure.test http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-840 Clojure <p>When looking at (log) output from tests written with clojure.test, I would like to be able to identify the output associated with each test. A mechanism to expose the current test var within an :each fixture would enable this.</p> <p>One mechanism might be to bind a <b>test-var</b> var with the current test var before calling the each-fixture-fn in clojure.test/test-all-vars.</p> CLJ-840 Add a way to access the current test var in :each fixtures for clojure.test Enhancement Major Open Unresolved Unassigned Hugo Duncan Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:20:56 -0500 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:47:53 -0600 0 2 <p>Or just pass the Var directly into the fixture. Vars are invokable.</p> <p>I don't think that works, since the the function passed to the fixture is not the test var, but a function calling <tt>test-var</tt> on the test var.</p> <p>Patch to add <b>test-var</b></p> <p><tt>&#42;testing-vars&#42;</tt> already has this information, but it's not visible to the fixture functions because it gets bound inside <tt>test-var</tt>.</p> <p>Perhaps the <tt>:each</tt> fixture functions should be called in <tt>test-var</tt> rather than in test-all-vars. (The namespace of a Var is available in its metadata.) But then we have to call <tt>join-fixtures</tt> inside <tt>test-var</tt> every time.</p> <p>Try this patch: clj840-2.diff.</p> <p>This makes <tt>&#42;testing-vars&#42;</tt> visible to <tt>:each</tt> fixture functions, which seems intuitively more correct.</p> <p>BUT it slightly changes the behavior of <tt>test-var</tt>, which I'm less happy about.</p> <p>Might it make sense to provide a function on top of <tt><b>testing-vars</b></tt> to return the current test-var?</p> <p>No, that function is <tt>first</tt></p> <p>I agree with having the dynamic vars as part of the extension interface, but would have thought that having a function for use when writing tests would have been cleaner. Just my 2c.</p> Global Rank Patch Code