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Version: 5.3

Inspectors

Inspectors allow us to test elements in a collection. They are extension functions for collections and arrays that test that all, none or some of the elements pass the given assertions. For example, to test that a list of names contains at least two elements which have a length of 7 or more, we can do this:

val xs = listOf("sam", "gareth", "timothy", "muhammad")
xs.forAtLeast(2) {
it.shouldHaveMinLength(7)
}

Similarly, if we wanted to asset that no elements in a collection passed the assertions, we could do something like:

xs.forNone {
it.shouldContain("x")
it.shouldStartWith("bb")
}

The full list of inspectors are:

  • forAll which asserts every element passes the assertions
  • forNone which asserts no element passes
  • forOne which asserts only a single element passed
  • forAtMostOne which asserts that either 0 or 1 elements pass
  • forAtLeastOne which asserts that 1 or more elements passed
  • forAtLeast(k) which is a generalization that k or more elements passed
  • forAtMost(k) which is a generalization that k or fewer elements passed
  • forAny which is an alias for forAtLeastOne
  • forSome which asserts that between 1 and n-1 elements passed. Ie, if NONE pass or ALL pass then we consider that a failure.
  • forExactly(k) which is a generalization that exactly k elements passed. This is the basis for the implementation of the other methods