Use test_dir()
for a collection of tests in a directory; use
test_package()
interactively at the console, and test_check()
inside of R CMD check
.
In your own code, you can use is_testing()
to determine if code is being
run as part of a test and testing_package()
to retrieve the name of the
package being tested. You can also check the underlying env var directly
identical(Sys.getenv("TESTTHAT"), "true")
to avoid creating a run-time
dependency on testthat.
test_dir(path, filter = NULL, reporter = default_reporter(),
env = test_env(), ..., encoding = "unknown", load_helpers = TRUE,
stop_on_failure = FALSE, stop_on_warning = FALSE, wrap = TRUE)test_package(package, filter = NULL, reporter = check_reporter(), ...,
stop_on_failure = TRUE, stop_on_warning = FALSE)
test_check(package, filter = NULL, reporter = check_reporter(), ...,
stop_on_failure = TRUE, stop_on_warning = FALSE, wrap = TRUE)
is_testing()
testing_package()
Path to directory containing tests.
If not NULL
, only tests with file names matching this
regular expression will be executed. Matching be performed on the file
name after it has been stripped of "test-"
and ".R"
.
Reporter to use to summarise output. Can be supplied
as a string (e.g. "summary") or as an R6 object
(e.g. SummaryReporter$new()
).
See Reporter for more details and a list of built-in reporters.
Environment in which to execute the tests. Expert use only.
Additional arguments passed to grepl()
to control filtering.
Deprecated. All files now assumed to be UTF-8.
Source helper files before running the tests?
See source_test_helpers()
for more details.
If TRUE
, throw an error if any tests fail.
If TRUE
, throw an error if any tests generate
warnings.
Automatically wrap all code within test_that()
? This ensures
that all expectations are reported, even if outside a test block.
Name of installed package.
A list of test results.
For package code, tests should live in tests/testthat
.
There are four classes of .R
files that have special behaviour:
Test files start with test
and are executed in alphabetical order.
Helper files start with helper
and are executed before tests are
run and from devtools::load_all()
.
Setup files start with setup
and are executed before tests, but not
during devtools::load_all()
.
Teardown files start with teardown
and are executed after the tests
are run.
Each test is run in a clean environment to keep tests as isolated as possible. For package tests, that environment that inherits from the package's namespace environment, so that tests can access internal functions and objects.
To run testthat automatically from R CMD check
, make sure you have
a tests/testthat.R
that contains:
library(testthat) library(yourpackage)test_check("yourpackage")
# NOT RUN {
test_dir(testthat_examples(), reporter = "summary")
test_dir(testthat_examples(), reporter = "minimal")
# }
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