Helper, setup, and teardown files located in the same directory as the test will also be run.
test_file(path, reporter = default_compact_reporter(), package = NULL, ...)
Path to file.
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.
If these tests belong to a package, the name of the package.
Additional parameters passed on to test_dir()
A list (invisibly) containing data about the test results.
There are two types of .R
file that have special behaviour:
Test files start with test
and are executed in alphabetical order.
Setup files start with setup
and are executed before tests. If
clean up is needed after all tests have been run, you can use
withr::defer(clean_up(), teardown_env())
. See vignette("test-fixtures")
for more details.
There are two other types of special file that we no longer recommend using:
Helper files start with helper
and are executed before tests are
run. They're also loaded by devtools::load_all()
, so there's no
real point to them and you should just put your helper code in R/
.
Teardown files start with teardown
and are executed after the tests
are run. Now we recommend interleave setup and cleanup code in setup-
files, making it easier to check that you automatically clean up every
mess that you make.
All other files are ignored by testthat.
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.
# NOT RUN {
path <- testthat_example("success")
test_file(path)
test_file(path, reporter = "minimal")
# }
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