Tests in multiple files?

[KayleMaster]

How do I run them with the standalone? I try require'busted.runner'() in each but it only tests the first file that has it.

[EricFedrowisch]

Good question. I am having this issue too. So far as I can tell, busted.runner uses the exit function from busted.compatibility. At the end of that exit function is a call to os.exit. This forces any use of busted.runner to exit the running lua process.

I tried sidestepping that like this:

This at least prevented the os.exit call from terminating lua. So my second test gets run, but now there's this error: So the busted functions aren't in scope anymore for whatever reason. Going to keep working on this though.

[EricFedrowisch]

Got it to run multiple tests using busted.runner. I changed busted.compatibility as above:

Then made a global function to clear the loaded packages of busted between tests:

This approach is probably not optimal, but it worked.

[EricFedrowisch]

Found an issue with the above approach. All the tests are run twice. Running twice without truly clearing all the variables may cause failures the second time.

[KayleMaster]

Good to know. I hope a more prominent solution will become available in the future.

[EricFedrowisch]

While using this approach to run multiple tests in standalone mode, the flow of execution was not what I expected. Code is executed from outwards in. Hopefully these pics explain: When run:

Also when using the method above, the outermost scope will be run twice fwiw.