// // A big advantage of Zig is the integration of its own test system. // This allows the philosophy of Test Driven Development (TDD) to be // implemented perfectly. Zig even goes one step further than other // languages, the tests can be included directly in the source file. // // This has several advantages. On the one hand it is much clearer to // have everything in one file, both the source code and the associated // test code. On the other hand, it is much easier for third parties // to understand what exactly a function is supposed to do if they can // simply look at the test inside the source and compare both. // // Especially if you want to understand how e.g. the standard library // of Zig works, this approach is very helpful. Furthermore it is very // practical, if you want to report a bug to the Zig community, to // illustrate it with a small example including a test. // // Therefore, in this exercise we will deal with the basics of testing // in Zig. Basically, tests work as follows: you pass certain parameters // to a function, for which you get a return - the result. This is then // compared with the EXPECTED value. If both values match, the test is // passed, otherwise an error message is displayed. // // testing.expect(foo(param1, param2) == expected); // // Also other comparisons are possible, deviations or also errors can // be provoked, which must lead to an appropriate behavior of the // function, so that the test is passed. // // Tests can be run via Zig build system or applied directly to // individual modules using "zig test xyz.zig". // // Both can be used script-driven to execute tests automatically, e.g. // after checking into a Git repository. Something we also make extensive // use of here at Ziglings. // const std = @import("std"); const testing = std.testing; // This is a simple function that builds a sum from the passed parameters and // returns. fn add(a: f16, b: f16) f16 { return a + b; } // The associated test. It always starts with the keyword "test", followed by a // description of the tasks of the test. This is followed by the test cases in // curly brackets. test "add" { // The first test checks if the sum of '41' and '1' gives '42', which is // correct. try testing.expect(add(41, 1) == 42); // Another way to perform this test is as follows: try testing.expectEqual(42, add(41, 1)); // This time a test with the addition of a negative number: try testing.expect(add(5, -4) == 1); // And a floating point operation: try testing.expect(add(1.5, 1.5) == 3); } // Another simple function that returns the result of subtracting the two // parameters. fn sub(a: f16, b: f16) f16 { return a - b; } // The corresponding test is not much different from the previous one. Except // that it contains an error that you need to correct. test "sub" { try testing.expect(sub(10, 5) == 6); try testing.expect(sub(3, 1.5) == 1.5); } // This function divides the numerator by the denominator. Here it is important // that the denominator must not be zero. This is checked and if it occurs an // error is returned. fn divide(a: f16, b: f16) !f16 { if (b == 0) return error.DivisionByZero; return a / b; } test "divide" { try testing.expect(divide(2, 2) catch unreachable == 1); try testing.expect(divide(-1, -1) catch unreachable == 1); try testing.expect(divide(10, 2) catch unreachable == 5); try testing.expect(divide(1, 3) catch unreachable == 0.3333333333333333); // Now we test if the function returns an error if we pass a zero as // denominator. But which error needs to be tested? try testing.expectError(error.???, divide(15, 0)); }