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Description
Kotest is a flexible and comprehensive testing tool for Kotlin with multiplatform support with additional assertions, property testing and data driven testing.
Support and updates
- Kotest has 3547 stars, 519 forks.
- It has 6 major releases in the past 6 months.
- It has 10 commits and there are 7 open pull requests.
- It has 57 open issues and 1573 have been closed.
Code statistics
- Kotest has 272 packages.
- Kotest has 1210 classes and 2504 methods.
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License
Kotest is lincensed under the Apache License 2.0
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Downloads
Kotest can be downloaded from it’s GitHub repository - https://github.com/kotest/kotest
Package and class index
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io.kotest.core.spec.style
- AnnotationSpec
- FunSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- ExpectSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- FeatureSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- FreeSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- DescribeSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- StringSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- WordSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- ShouldSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
- BehaviorSpecTestFactoryConfiguration
io.kotest.core.spec.style.scopes
- TestWithConfigBuilder
- BehaviorSpecWhenContainerScopeval
- ContainerWithConfigBuilderT
- FeatureSpecContainerScopeval
- BehaviorSpecGivenContainerScope
- ShouldSpecContainerScope
- FunSpecRootScope
- WordSpecRootScope
- FunSpecContainerScope
- StringSpecScope
- FreeSpecTerminalScopeval
- FeatureSpecRootScope
- FreeSpecContainerScopeval
- ExpectSpecContainerScope
- AbstractContainerScopeprivate
- DescribeSpecContainerScope
- DescribeSpecRootScope
- ExpectSpecRootScope
- WordSpecWhenContainerScope
- WordSpecTerminalScopeval
- RootTestWithConfigBuilder
- ShouldSpecRootScope
- FreeSpecContextConfigBuilderval
- WordSpecShouldContainerScope
- RootScope
- state
- RootContainerWithConfigBuilderT
- BehaviorSpecRootScope
com.sksamuel.kotest.engine.test.timeout
- SpecInlineInvocationTimeoutTest
- GlobalTimeoutTest
- SpecTimeoutExceptionMessageTest
- MultipleTestTimeoutTest
- ContainerTimeoutTest
- TestTimeoutTest
- TestTimeoutExceptionTest
- ShouldSpecTimeoutTest
- WithTimeoutTest
- FunctionOverrideInvocationTimeoutTest
- TestInvocationTimeoutOverridesSpecFunctionTest
- TestInvocationTimeoutExceptionMessageTest
- TestTimeoutAfterTestListenerTest
- TestTimeoutOverridesSpecInlineTest
- TestInvocationTimeoutOverridesSpecInlineTest
- SpecTimeoutFunctionTest
- SpecInvocationTimeoutShouldNotApplyToContainersTest
- TestTimeoutOverridesSpecFunctionTest
- SpecInvocationTimeoutMessageExceptionTest
- SpecTimeoutInlineTest
- TimeoutTest
com.sksamuel.kotest.engine.test.interceptors
- ExceptionCapturingTestExecutionInterceptorTest
- DatabaseLogExtension
- InvocationTimeoutInterceptorTest
- TestCoroutineDispatcherInterceptorTest
- EnabledCheckTestExecutionInterceptorTest
- TimeoutInterceptorTest
- TestFinishedExecutionInterceptorTest
- CoroutineDispatcherInterceptorTest
- InvocationCountCheckInterceptorTest
com.sksamuel.kotest.engine.threads
- BeforeAfterNestedInstancePerTestTest
- BeforeAfterInstancePerLeafTest
- TestCaseExtensionConcurrentInstancePerTestTest
- PersistentThreadLocalT
- InstancePerTestTest
- SpecThreadBeforeAfterInstancePerTestTest
- NestedTestsWithLockInstancePerLeafTest
- SpecThreadBeforeAfterSingleInstanceTest
- SpecThreadWithNestedTestWithLockInstancePerTestTest
- SpecThreadTestCaseExtensionConcurrentInstancePerLeafTest
- SpecThreadTestCaseExtensionConcurrentSingleInstanceTest
- WithLocksNestedSingleInstanceTest
- SpecThreadBeforeTestConcurrentInstancePerTestTest
- WithLocksInstancePerLeafTest
- SpecThreadWithNestedBeforeAfterSingleInstanceTest
- SpecThreadBeforeTestConcurrentInstancePerLeafTest
- SpecThreadBeforeTestConcurrentSingleInstanceTest
- SpecThreadWithNestedBeforeAfterInstancePerLeafTest
- SpecThreadInstancePerLeafTest
- SpecThreadInstancePerTestWithLockTest
com.sksamuel.kotest.property.arbitrary
- FilterTest
- ChoiceTest
- StringArbTest
- DistinctTest
- DoubleTest
- LazyInitializationTest
- CharTest
- IpAddressTest
- BigDecimalTest
- DateTest
- LocaleTest
- InstantArbTest
- MultipleTest
- EmailArbTest
- CombinationsTest
- OrNullTest
- WithEdgecasesTest
- ArrayTest
- StringPatternTest
- IntTest
- CollectionsTest
- FlatMapTest
- BindShrinkTest
- BigIntArbTest
- BindTest
- MapsTest
- FactorTest
- RegexTest
- ByteTest
- LongTest
- ChooseTest
- FloatTest
- MapTest
- MultipleArbitraryTest
- ReflectiveBindTest
- LinesTest
- ShortTest
- ClassifierArityTest
- DomainArbTest
- DefaultClassifierTest
- BuilderTest
io.kotest.property.arbitrary
- bigdecimal
- jvmbind
- uuid
- TypeReferenceT
- bigint
- stringsjvm
- file
- dates
- targetDefaultForClassName
- locale
- ArbitraryBuilderA
- doubles
- network
- tuples
- domain
- IntShrinkerval
- ListShrinkerAprivate
- zip
- MapShrinkerK
- bind
- bytes
- merge
- edgecases
- shorts
- filter
- const
- Codepointval
- StringShrinkerWithMin
- MultiplesShrinkerprivate
- arbs
- NoGeneratorFoundExceptionmsg
- LongShrinkerprivate
- distinct
- emails
- bools
- null
- array
- char
- floats
- next
- map
- GeoLocationval
- timezone
- date
com.sksamuel.kotest
- IntelliErrorDiffTest
- IterableShouldBeTest
- ShouldNotBeTest
- LargeArrayShouldBeTest
- ShouldBeNumericTests
- OneTests
- AnyTests
- InspectingTest
- InspectorAliasTest
- ShouldFailTest
- FailuresTest
- NullTests
- ExtractTest
- InspectorsTest
- ThreadLocalHolder
- Foo1
- DummySpecFunTest
- ProjectConfig
- DummyFunSpecTest
- DummyBehaviorSpecTest
- JunitXmlReporterTest
io.kotest.assertions
- CluesTests
- AssertSoftlyTests
- AssertionFailedError
- diffLargeString
- ConfigurationLoader
- ErrorCollector
- counter
- Exceptions
- inspecting
- errorAndAssertionsScope
- MultiAssertionErrorerrors
- intellijFormatter
- exceptionToMessage
- all
- EnvironmentConfigValueT
- Expectedval
- BasicErrorCollector
- fail
- clues
- extracting
- BasicAssertionCounter
io.kotest.engine.multiconfig
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