Parametrized unit tests in Swift

Question

Is there any way to use parameterized unit tests, similar to what you can achieve in .Net using NUnit framework.

[TestCase(12, 3, 4)]
[TestCase(12, 2, 6)]
[TestCase(12, 4, 3)]
public void DivideTest(int expectedResult, int a, int b)
{
  Assert.AreEqual(expectedResult, a / b);
}

Using this kind of tests (vs non-parameterized ones) can give you bigger back for buck by allowing you to avoid writing series of almost identical unit tests differing only by parameter values.

I am looking for either XCTest-based solution or some other means to achieve it. Optimal solution should report each test case (parameter set) as a separate unit test in Xcode, so is it clear whether all or only some of the tests cases failed.

Answer 1

The best way to use parametrized is using the XCTestCase subclass's property defaultTestSuite. A clearly example with devision is the next:

import XCTest

class ParameterizedExampleTests: XCTestCase {

    //properties to save the test cases
    private var array: [Float]? = nil
    private var expectedResult: Float? = nil

    // This makes the magic: defaultTestSuite has the set of all the test methods in the current runtime
    // so here we will create objects of ParameterizedExampleTests to call all the class' tests methodos
    // with differents values to test
    override open class var defaultTestSuite: XCTestSuite {
        let testSuite = XCTestSuite(name: NSStringFromClass(self))
        addTestsWithArray([12, 3], expectedResult: 4, toTestSuite: testSuite)
        addTestsWithArray([12, 2], expectedResult: 6, toTestSuite: testSuite)
        addTestsWithArray([12, 4], expectedResult: 3, toTestSuite: testSuite)
        return testSuite
    }

    // This is just to create the new ParameterizedExampleTests instance to add it into testSuite
    private class func addTestsWithArray(_ array: [Float], expectedResult: Float, toTestSuite testSuite: XCTestSuite) {
        testInvocations.forEach { invocation in
            let testCase = ParameterizedExampleTests(invocation: invocation)
            testCase.array = array
            testCase.expectedResult = expectedResult
            testSuite.addTest(testCase)
        }
    }

    // Normally this function is into production code (e.g. class, struct, etc).
    func division(a: Float, b: Float) -> Float {
        return a/b
    }

    func testDivision() {
        XCTAssertEqual(self.expectedResult, division(a: array?[0] ?? 0, b: array?[1] ?? 0))
    }
}

Answer 2

You function parameters are all over the place. I'm not sure if your function is doing multiplication or division. But here's one way you can do multiple test cases in a single test method.

Given this function:

func multiply(_ a: Int, _ b: Int) -> Int {
    return a * b
}

You can have multiple test cases on it:

class MyTest: XCTestCase {
    func testMultiply() {
        let cases = [(4,3,12), (2,4,8), (3,5,10), (4,6,20)]
        cases.forEach {
            XCTAssertEqual(multiply($0, $1), $2)
        }
    }
}

The last two would fail and Xcode will tell you about them.