TODO this is outdated (2016-01)

The Unit Tests

The unit tests are built into the darcs-test binary, which you can run by doing a dist/build/darcs-test/darcs-test.

To run the tests as thoroughly as before the switch to test-framework, you do dist/build/unit/unit --maximum-unsuitable-generated-tests=5000 && dist/build/unit/unit -t 'Checking again we can do merges using QuickCheck' -a 1000.

The Main module of the unit test executable is src/test.hs. This file imports the QuickCheck and HUnit test suites embedded into the various modules of the Darcs source code.

The darcs unit tests use the test-framework package for executing the tests and handling command-line flags.

QuickCheck-based tests

There are some QuickCheck-based tests in src/unit.lhs, which are converted to test-framework Tests by the testProperty function.

Non-QuickCheck tests

There are also non-QuickCheck tests in the Darcs.Patch.Test hierarchy. Such a test has type [String], counterintuitively. The test returns an empty list if it succeeds and strings explaining the failures if it fails. There is a testStringList to convert such tests to Test.Framework Test via HUnit.

Adding new tests

If you want to add new tests, add them within the module you are testing, and make sure the module exports a testSuite :: Test function that calls all the tests for that module. The module Darcs.Email is an example of this approach.

Tests in Darcs.Patch.Test

For the tests that reside in src/Darcs/Patch/Test, there are five modules:

• Darcs.Patch.Test.Unit contains the big list of test patches (patch_unit_tests) and some properties
• Darcs.Patch.Test.Properties contains some properties
• Darcs.Patch.Test.Util contains generators and Arbitrary instances for darcs’s data types, and some properties.
• Darcs.Patch.Test.QuickCheck contains Arbitrary instances and QuickCheck-related helper functions.
• Darcs.Patch.Test.Check contains the definition of a PatchCheck state monad for tracking repository state, used by Darcs.Patch.Test