Errors

Sometimes it’s useful to verify that a certain exception is raised. This is achieved with assert-error or assert-macro-error macro. Both take two parameters: a string and piece of code. The code is executed and resulting exception is compared with the provided string. In case of assert-error this comparison is done by simply calling str for exception. For assert-macro-error message attribute is used. If no exception is raised, or raised exception doesn’t match the provided string, assertion fails.

(fact "errors can be asserted"
      (assert-error "error"
                    (raise (ValueError "error"))))

(fact "macro errors can be asserted"
      (assert-macro-error "cond branches need to be a list"
                          (cond (= 1 1) true)))