Idris' Testing Suite

Running the test suite

Do make test_c or make test_js. It will run the tests in parallel and through cabal test. You can also manually call cabal test or stack test.

Passing arguments

To the test program

You can pass arguments to the test program. For example, to pass the --help argument:

# Via make
make TEST-ARGS="--help" test_c
# Via cabal
cabal test --test-options="--help"
# Via stack
stack test --test-arguments="--help"

Try it to learn more about the other arguments you can provide. Two are of particular interest: --node to test against the Node code generator and --pattern <regex> to only run the test that match the provided <regex>.

To idris

You can pass arguments to idris in each of its invocation by the tests. There are two ways to this. You can either modify the idrisFlags term in TestRun, or set the $IDRIS environment variable accordingly

Specifying the number of parallel jobs

With make, the test suite runs in parallel by default. You can specify the number of threads with TEST-JOBS. For stack and cabal, you need to explicitly enable parallelism as you would do with any other GHC-compiled executable. Examples:

# Two test jobs via make
make TEST-JOBS=2 test_c
# Two test jobs via cabal
cabal test --test-options="+RTS -N2 -RTS"
# Two test jobs via stack
stack test --test-arguments="+RTS -N2 -RTS"

Running only previously failed tests

Because of the --rerun-update option, make test_c will create a .tasty-rerun-log file in the root directory of the project. Each time the test suite is run, the file will be written with the result of the tests. The next time you do make test, you can specify the rerun-filter argument to, for example, only run previously failed tests. Valid values are given in the --help.

Extending the test suite

Content of the directory

To each test there shall be a folder that holds at least a bash script run and a golden file expected. When running the test suite, the standard output of the script is compared against the golden file. Any mismatch is reported as a failure.

The name of a test folder is the identifier of the test family followed by a three digit number. A test family gathers related tests.

Add to that four top level files:

• The program TestRun.hs that runs the test suite
• A Haskell module TestData.hs with the metadata for each test
• The Perl script mktest.pl to ease the creation of a new test
• This README.md

Test families

Tests are categorised with the following test families (and their identifiers):

• basic: Basic language features, some complete programs
• bignum: Bignums and GMP
• bounded: Bounds testing for bits
• corecords: Tests for corecord
• delab: De-elaboration tests
• directives: Tests for directives
• disambig: Disambiguaton tests
• docs: Testing documentation functionality
• dsl: Embedded DSLs and features to support DSL development
• effects: Effects package
• error: Error messages and error reflection
• ffi: FFI calls, including type providers
• folding Testing some folds
• idrisdoc: Documentation tool functionality
• interactive: Interactive editing, proof search
• interfaces: Testing interfaces.
• io: IO monad
• literate: .lidr files; literate programming
• meta: Meta-programming
• pkg: Packages
• primitives: Primitive types
• proof: Theorem proving, tactics
• proofsearch: Proof search
• pruviloj: Elaborator reflection
• quasiquote: Quasiquotations
• records: Records
• reg: Regression tests, covering previous bug fixes
• regression: Regression tests, covering previous bug fixes
• sourceLocation: Interaction with files from Idris
• sugar: Syntactic sugar, syntax extensions
• syntax: Syntax extensions
• tactics: Testing for tactics
• totality: Totality checking
• tutorial: Examples from the tutorial
• unique: Uniqueness types
• universes: Universes
• views: Views and covering functions

Adding a test family

1. Choose an available identifier for your test family. It should be short and somewhat self-explanatory.
2. Add it in the README.md file, i.e. just above.
3. Add it in TestData.hs, in the testFamiliesData list. Say the chosen identifier is foo. You should append to the list ("foo", "A proper name for foo", [ ]). The empty list will be replaced with the metadata of each test in the family.
4. Add your tests.

Adding a test

1. Choose the family your test shall belong to and remember its identifier.
2. Pick the next available integer in the test family. It will be the index.
3. Say the family's identifier is foo and the index is 42. You should call ./mktest.pl foo042 ; this will create the directory and a simple run script.
4. Modify the run script to your liking. If you want to call the idris executable, write ${IDRIS:-idris} $@.
5. Add any file you may need in the directory. If they don't end in .idr, you should remember them for the next step.
6. Add your test in TestData.hs. Each family has a list of (Index, CompatCodegen). See the next section for the available values in CompatCodegen. In most cases, you should write ( 42, ANY).
7. Generate the expected file by doing:

   # Using cabal
   cabal test --test-options="--pattern foo042 --accept"
   # Using stack
   stack test --test-arguments"--pattern foo042 --accept"
   

8. Check the content of expected. Maybe the test didn't do what you thought it would. Fix and go back to 7 until it's ok.
9. Add under Extra-source-files in idris.cabal the patterns that match the folder's content. If you forget this, your test will fail in Travis CI. With the previous example, it should be at least:

   test/foo042/run
   test/foo042/expected
   test/foo042/*.idr
   

Specifying compatible backends

Some tests only make sense with specific code generators. Others don't generate code. You need to supply this information in testFamiliesData. Available values for the compatible backends are:

• ANY: choose this if your test will work with any code generator
• C_CG: choose this to only test against the C code generator
• JS_CG: choose this to only test against the Node code generator
• NONE: choose this if you don't want your test to be run with multiple code generators (mainly for tests that only perform type checking)

Currently, NONE has the same effect as ANY, but this will change.

Removing a test

1. Delete the corresponding directory
2. Remove the corresponding line in the definition of testFamiliesData in TestData.hs
3. Remove the related lines under Extra-source-files in idris.cabal

Updating golden files

To update the expected file for every test, do one of the following:

# Using make
make test_update
# Using cabal
cabal test --test-options="--accept"
# Using stack
stack test --test-arguments="--accept"

"Accepted" tests are the ones that update the golden file. A test can still fail if the run script itself crashes.