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Utilities for writing unit tests of Builders.

Testing utilities for users of package:build.
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Installation #

This package is intended to only be as a development dependency for users of package:build, and should not be used in any production code. Simply add to your pubspec.yaml:

dev_dependencies:
  build_test:

Running tests #

To run tests, you should go through the dart run build_runner test command. This will compile all your tests to a temp directory and run them using dart run test. If you would like to see the output directory, you can use the --output=<dir> option to force the output to go to a specific place.

Forwarding additional args to dart run test #

It is very common to need to pass some arguments through to the eventual call to dart run test. To do this, add all those args after an empty -- arg.

For example, to run all chrome platform tests you would do dart run build_runner test -- -p chrome.

Debugging web tests #

This package will automatically create *.debug.html files next to all your *_test.dart files, which can be loaded in a browser from the normal development server (dart run build_runner serve).

Note: In order to run the tests this way, you will need to configure them to be compiled (by default we only compile *.browser_test.dart files). You can do this in your build.yaml file, with something like the following:

targets:
  $default:
    builders:
      build_web_compilers:entrypoint:
        generate_for:
        - test/**_test.dart
        - web/**.dart

You may also view an index of links to every *.debug.html file by navigating to http://localhost:8081 (or wherever your test folder is being served).

Writing tests for your custom Builder #

In addition to assiting in running normal tests, this package provides some utilities for testing your custom Builder classes.

See the test folder in the build package for more examples.

Run a Builder within a test environment #

Using testBuilder, you can run a functional test of a Builder, including feeding specific assets, and more. It automatically creates an in-memory representation of various utility classes.

Exposing actual package sources to testBuilder #

You can expose real package sources to the builder in addition to your in memory sources, by passing a PackageAssetReader to the reader parameter:

testBuilder(yourBuilder, {}/* test assets here */,
    reader: await PackageAssetReader.currentIsolate());

You can pass any custom AssetReader here, which will be used as a fallback for any source not defined in the source assets map.

Resolve source code for testing #

Using resolveAsset and resolveSource, you can resolve Dart source code into a static element model, suitable for probing and using within tests of code you might have written for a Builder:

test('should resolve a simple dart file', () async {
  var resolver = await resolveSource(r'''
    library example;

    class Foo {}
  ''');
  var libExample = resolver.getLibraryByName('example');
  expect(libExample.getType('Foo'), isNotNull);
});

Various test implementations of classes #