Compare assert exception in should(JavaScript) and unittest(Python)
2015-12-22 15-16-23 by Kamushinshould
With should
, exception is asserted like this:
it('should throw when n isnt Number', function () {
(function () {
main.fibonacci('abcd');
}).should.throw('n should be a Number');
});
This library adds an attribute should
to Object
. The should
attribute includes a bunch of assert functions. With this, you can do
(5).should.above(3)
. It will be even harder in Python, because types defined in C cannot be monkeypatched.
The implement of should.throw
is a simple try/catch
.
unittest
With assertRaises
in unittest
, exception is asserted like this:
with self.assertRaisesRegexp(ValueError, 'literal'):
int('XYZ')
It's much more simple than another way, because we don't need to pass test function as an argument to the assert function, no matter the argument called this
lol.
Exception is not catched by a try/except
statement, but in __exit__
context manager.