Running unit tests in Cider

Run tests from the buffer containing the test source code buffer, as this ensures all test code is loaded and the latest version of the tests are run.

SPC p a switches between source and test buffers.

Keybinding	description
`, t a`	load buffer and run tests

Tests can be run from the source code buffer, however, only test code that has been evaluated in the REPL will run.

, to invoke tests commands from the REPL buffer

Auto Unit Test Mode

, T t to toggle auto test mode

e b` will automatically run tests.

by re-evaluating the buffer with auto test mode on it to automatically run tests whenever that namespace is loaded.

Cider test results buffer

Tests can be run from the *cider-test-results* buffer

Keyboard shortcut	Description
`g`	Run test at point.
`n`	Run tests for current namespace.
`l`	Run tests for all loaded namespaces.
`p`	Run tests for all project namespaces. This loads the additional namespaces.
`f`	Re-run test failures/errors.
`M-p`	Move point to previous test.
`M-n`	Move point to next test.
`t` or `M-.`	Jump to test definition.
`d`	Display diff of actual vs expected.
`e`	Display test error cause and stacktrace info.

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From cider documentation: running tests

Additional configuration

Certain aspects of the test execution behavior are configurable:

If your tests are not following the some.ns-test naming convention you can customize the variable cider-test-infer-test-ns. It should be bound to a function that takes the current namespace and returns the matching test namespace (which may be the same as the current namespace).
If your individual tests are not defined by deftest or defspec, CIDER will not recognize them when searching for a test at point in cider-test-run-test. You can customize the variable cider-test-defining-forms to add additional forms for CIDER to recognize as individual test definitions.
If you want to view the test report regardless of whether the tests have passed or failed:

(setq cider-test-show-report-on-success t)

Running tests automatically (test-driven development)

CIDER provides a minor-mode that automatically runs all tests for a namespace whenever you load a file (with C-c C-k). You can toggle it manually with M-x cider-auto-test-mode, or you can use:

(cider-auto-test-mode 1)

This is completely equivalent to manually typing C-c C-t C-n every time you load a Clojure buffer. Also, as described above before, CIDER is smart enough to figure out the namespace containing the tests.

Using cider-test with alternative test libraries

The clojure.test machinery is designed to be pluggable. Any test library can implement it if so desired, and therefore leverage cider-test. For instance, test.check does this, and cider-test handles defspec just like deftest.

As a test framework author, supporting the built-in clojure.test machinery (and hence cider-test) is pretty straightforward:

Assoc each test fn as :test metadata on some var. These are what get run.
Implement the clojure.test/report multimethod to capture the test results.

The test.check library is a good example here. It was also designed completely independently of clojure.test. It just adds compatibility in this namespace.

Running Tests