In any program which is bigger than arithmetic operations, programmers should make themselves comfortable when it is possible to ensure that new changes are not breaking old functionalities.

The most common technique for this is unit testing, which is where the programmer tests the functionality of the code in parallel with its development by creating a test code which will verify that the code really satisfies their requirements.

The theme of this section will be introducing tools for unit testing in Scala.

Adding a Test to Our Project

Let's add tests to our small program. We'll import <for-students/lesson1/2-project> in our IDE.

This is the directory schema of a Scala project. For adding tests, we should do the following:

For adding dependency, let's add the following line to our build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % "3.0.4" % "test"

It's an expression in Scala DSL (domain-specific language), which means that we should add scalatest to our set of library dependencies. Operators %% and % are used for forming the name and classifier for published artifacts. You can refer to the sb t documentation for more detail: http://www.scala-sbt.org/1.x/docs/Library-Dependencies.html.

Before compilation, sbt will download scalatest from a publicly available repository (Maven central), and when running tests, it will add scalatest to the classpath.

We will now run sbt tests from the command line.

We will now see how to run sbt tests from IDEA IDE.

We'll now run sbt Tests from IDEA IDE.