It's oddly frustrating writing tests for a test library. You want better testing features (hence writing the library), but you have to write tests without them (due to bootstrapping.
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Do any tech streamers try new software live? It'd be a really fun way of doing UX testing.
I've been using a 'golden tests' library for testing my parser, and it's just delightful. Rather than writing a verbose assertion about the resulting AST, I can just re-run my tests until the output looks good!
I've been using a 'golden tests' library for testing my parser, and it's just delightful. Rather than writing a verbose assertion about the resulting AST, I can just re-run my tests until the output looks good!
I'm using https://github.com/jfecher/golden-tests currently, which can automatically update the output in the file.
Example commit: