mudasobwa
A simple yet quite effective approach to make your library a charm to test. DummyWorker sends a message back to the testing process instead of performing a real action.
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qhwa
Awesome post! Thanks for sharing!
I’m very happy to learn such a test strategy.
One question, how does it work for async tests?
mudasobwa
Generally, it requires no additional effort, that’s why I mentioned registering test processes on a per-message basis. There might be some caveats in particular cases, but there is no silver bullet and all of them could usually be easily resolved in place.
Messages are the actor model in a nutshell which is born to survive async environment
qhwa
Agreed. Some libraries make refers and check with refs. Is that idiomatic?
mudasobwa
Yes,
make_ref/0is perfectly idiomatic, andBroadwaydoes exactly that too.