Re: Best practice for mocking functions/prompts/etc.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@forcix.cx> writes:

> When writing a library for Emacs (to be included in the core), what is
> the recommended best practice to test for interactive function calls? I
> did not see a mock library, so I suspect there is a standard way without
> such a library.

[...]

>     (let ((returned-file (the-function)))
>
>       (should (equal returned-file test-file))
>       (should (equal called-prompt "Foo: ")))))
>
> Is there a better way?

You seem to want to check whether the Emacs Lisp language works at all
by checking a specific function?  I don't think that's a useful level to
perform checks at.

I think you can take it as a given that the Emacs Lisp language works as
specified.

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