Oban Job Testing in Elixir

I’m not sure I understand. When you’re in a test, Oban is not running in the background. You can use Oban.drain_queue to synchronously run jobs that are queued up, but there isn’t a lot of point in asserting on what jobs are doing because well, they aren’t doing anything on their own during tests.

I think the point of the Oban test helpers is to test the jobs from the “outside”, that is, make assertions on the observable effects. So you can:

• Verify that the jobs were enqueued with assert_enqueued,
• Verify that the jobs were not enqueued with refute_enqueued,
• Inspect all enqueued jobs with all_enqueued,
• Run a job synchronously and verify the result of the job with perform_job,
• Run jobs and verify how many succeeded or failed with drain_queue.

You could in theory get notified about the job status by plugging into Telemetry, but I think it would be better to restructure the way you make assertions.

Can please share more details about the kind of behaviour you are trying to test? Maybe there’s a different way to do it?