In Clojure the unit under test is the function. Unit test coverage should test all public function that form the API of their respective namespace.

clojure.test namespace provides a unit testing framework and is included in the Clojure library, so is available in all Clojure projects.

Test runners are used to run one or more tests in a project.

Simple principles for writing unit tests

• One test namespace for each src namespace
• One deftest function for each function under test
• Multiple is assertions for one function
• Group assertions in testing and provide a meaningful description of that grouping, adding more information when reviewing test failures especially for larger code bases.
• `are for testing similar functionality with different data sets
• Test private functions (or don't use them) through public functions of each namespace (minimize test churn and time to run all tests)
• Use generative testing to create less code and yet test with more extensive range of data
• Use test selectors to organize tests and optimize speed of test runs

Project structure with tests

By convention, separate src and test directories are used to hold the source code and the code that tests that source code.

For each source code file in src there should be a corresponding file in test with the same name and _test postfix.

For example, code to test the src/codewars/rock_paper_scissors.clj is saved in the file src/codewars/rock_paper_scissors_test.clj file.

Example project: CodeWars: Rock Paper Scissors

Source and Test Namespaces

As with file names, the namespaces for each test code file is the same as the source code it is testing, with a -test postfix.

codewars/rock-paper-scissors source code namespace will have a matching codewars/rock-paper-scissors-test namespace.

Project Examples: Code challenges with unit tests

• TDD Kata: Recent Songlist - simple tests examples
• Codewars: Rock Paper Scissors (lizard spock) solution - and examples
• practicalli/numbers-to-words - overly verbose example, ripe for refactor
• practicalli/codewars-guides - deps.edn projects
• practicalli/exercism-clojure-guides - Leiningen projects

References

• Example based unit testing in Clojure - PurelyFunctional.tv