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dummy-user

Simulates user input for testing interactive command-line programs.

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dummy-user
1. Author
2. Repository
3. API
  1. make-dummy-user
  2. with-dummy-user
4. Examples
5. Requirements
6. License
7. Version history
  1. version 0.1

API

make-dummy-user

[procedure] (make-dummy-user STRINGS)

Given a list of strings representing a sequence of user input, this procedure returns a DUMMY-USER closure, which responds to the following messages:

(USER 'input)
(USER 'output)

These calls return, respectively, an input and an output port. Generally you do not need to use them directly; they are used by with-dummy-user to rebind stdin and stdout.

(USER 'reset)

Resets the dummy user to its initial state, allowing repeated tests with the same data.

(USER 'dump)

Returns a list of all data received from and sent to the test program, in the form '((program: STRING) (user: STRING) ...).

with-dummy-user

[procedure] (with-dummy-user USER THUNK [RETURN-RESULT])

Tests a program with a dummy user; to be precise, it binds stdin and stdout to the ports provided by the dummy user. The USER argument should be a closure such as that produced by make-dummy-user. THUNK is a procedure of no arguments that runs the program you wish to test. After running the test program, by default with-dummy-user calls (USER 'dump) and returns the result of that call. However, you may provide your own RETURN-RESULT procedure (with 0 arguments) to cause other data to be returned (e.g. the inputs collected by your program).

Examples

  (use dummy-user)

  (define my-results #f)

  (define (test-prog)
    (let ((collected-data (make-queue)))
      (display "Name: ")
      (queue-add! collected-data (cons 'name (read-line)))
      (display "Age: ")
      (queue-add! collected-data (cons 'age (read-line)))
      (display "Phone: ")
      (queue-add! collected-data (cons 'phone (read-line)))
      (print "OK, thanks!")
      collected-data))

  (define my-dummy (make-dummy-user '("Jenny" "24" "867-5309")))

  (pp (with-dummy-user my-dummy test-prog))

  ;;; Should print: ((program: "Name: ") (user: "Jenny") (program: "Age: ") (user: "24")
  ;;;                (program: "Phone: ") (user: "867-5309") (program: "OK, Thanks!") (program: "\n"))

  (my-dummy 'reset)

  (pp (with-dummy-user
        my-dummy
        (lambda () (set! my-results (test-prog)))
        (lambda () (queue->list my-results))))
  
  ;;; Should print: ((name . "Jenny") (age . "24") (phone . "867-5309"))

Requirements

None.

License

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   Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors may be
   used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
   specific prior written permission.

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Version history

version 0.1

Initial release