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The Clojure Workshop

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838825485
Pages 800 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (5):
Joseph Fahey Joseph Fahey
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Thomas Haratyk Thomas Haratyk
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Scott McCaughie Scott McCaughie
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Yehonathan Sharvit Yehonathan Sharvit
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Konrad Szydlo Konrad Szydlo
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Hello REPL! 2. Data Types and Immutability 3. Functions in Depth 4. Mapping and Filtering 5. Many to One: Reducing 6. Recursion and Looping 7. Recursion II: Lazy Sequences 8. Namespaces, Libraries and Leiningen 9. Host Platform Interoperability with Java and JavaScript 10. Testing 11. Macros 12. Concurrency 13. Database Interaction and the Application Layer 14. HTTP with Ring 15. The Frontend: A ClojureScript UI Appendix

Using the Expectations Testing Library

The main philosophy in the Expectations library revolves around an expectation. The expectation object is built with the idea that unit tests should contain one assertion per test. A result of this design choice is that expectations have very minimal syntax, and reduce the amount of code needed to perform tests.

Minimal syntax helps to maintain the code as it is easier to read and reason about code that is short and focused on testing one feature. Another benefit relates to testing failing code. When a test fails, it is easy to check which test failed and why because the test is focused on one feature and not multiple features.

The Expectations library allows us to test things like the following:

  • Errors thrown by the code: We can test whether a part of our code throws an error. Imagine a function that calculates a discount. This function takes numbers as input and multiplies them. If we pass a string such as "text" and...
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