Overview

Testz is a testing library for zig that provides some extra features compared to the built in unit testing.

• Color output with both a verbose mode and non-verbose mode

  • A non-verbose mode, where each test shows as a symbol for passed, skipped, or failed:

  • In verbose mode, you can see the name of each test run and how long it took to run.

  • In both cases a test run summary lets you know how many tests ran and the overall time.

• Easy filtering by group tag or test name itself

  • Making it easier to set a breakpoint and debug a single test.

• Provides a test runner utility function with argument parsing for a default use case.

• Has a test discovery helper that searches for tests by finding public functions in a passed in module, allowing tests to be skipped by prepending skip_ to the start of the function name.

• Stack traces of relevant code only

  • Skips stack frames from testz itself as well as main where the test runner is called.
  • Stack traces provide context lines around the stack frame.

Testz runners are just another executable you setup in your build.zig, with the library providing a number of helpers to make it as easy as possible to create tests. Debugging is simple since you can run your debugger just like with any normal flat executable and use the built in filtering to narrow down what test or set of tests gets run.

Example

Check the example program under example/ with a main program and a separate test program.

Test module

A module of tests looks like:

const std = @import("std");
const testz = @import("testz");

pub fn allowNonTestzErrorsTest() !void {
    const mem = try std.heap.page_allocator.alloc(u8, 10);
    defer std.heap.page_allocator.free(mem);
    try testz.expectEqual(true, true);
}

pub fn alwaysFailTest() !void {
    try testz.fail();
}

pub fn successTest() !void {
    try testz.expectEqual(12, 12);
    try testz.expectEqualStr("hello", "hello");
    try testz.expectNotEqual(10, 20);
    try testz.expectNotEqualStr("hello", "world");
    try testz.expectTrue(true);
    try testz.expectFalse(false);
}

pub fn skip_Test() !void {
    // nothing to see here.
}

The test functions are simply any public function in a module you pass into discoverTests. The testz library has a number of expectXYZ functions you can use to make assertions in your code. If one fails, testz will capture the name of the failed test, error message, and stack trace (with contextual lines).

Test Runner

This is a test runner program using the built-in testzRunner method that you could use in your project, which handles standard argument parsing. It also shows test discovery by passing in modules as groups to the discoverTests method.

const std = @import("std");
const testz = @import("testz");

const DiscoveredTests = testz.discoverTests(.{ 
    testz.Group{ .name = "Expect Tests", .tag = "expect", .mod = @import("./expect_tests.zig") }, 
    testz.Group{ .name = "Misc Tests", .tag = "misc", .mod = @import("./misc_tests.zig") } 
});

pub fn main() !void {
    try testz.testzRunner(DiscoveredTests);
}

The function testsz.discoverTests, takes a tuple of either direct module @imports, or testz.Group structs, which contain a group name and tag for filtering as well as the module to scan for test functions.

A build.zig Setup

Run zig fetch --save https://github.com/srjilarious/testz to add testz as a dependency in your build.zig.zon file.

Next, in your build.zig, you would create a new exe for your tests and add:

    const testzMod = b.dependency("testz", .{});
    [...]
    testsExe.root_module.addImport("testz", testzMod.module("testz"));

See the project under example/ for how this looks in a simple dummy project.

Planned Features

The library has all of the initial features I set out to implement. New releases will mostly be to keep up to date with the latest zig versions as they get released.

Feel free to open an issue or open a PR if there is a feature you'd like to see!