Writing tests with Blockly

[anj...@code.org]

Does anyone know of any Blockly projects that allow users to write unit tests for their programs? Not sure exactly what I'm looking for, but interested to hear about any related work that people know about. Maybe something like a block library for making assertions or other kinds of validation checks?

thanks!

anjali

[Beka Westberg]

Hi anjali,

So you mean like an editor that allows you to test the block-programs you write with blocks? I haven't heard of one, but that sounds really cool!

The closest things I can think of are:

1) MakeCode's debugger interface, which allows you to set breakpoints and see variable state. Not related to unit testing, but debugging is kind of close to unit testing I hope? haha

2) Blockly's generator tests. These are blocks that allow you to test that blockly's code generators are working correctly. You can't test your blockly /programs/, but it is unit testing!

Hopefully others have more resources for you!

--Beka

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[ewpa...@gmail.com]

In App Inventor we also use Blockly to create unit tests for our blocks and those tests are evaluated as part of our unit test framework. We use this to ensure that the Android and iOS runtimes produce the same results.

Cheers,

Evan