Testing on the Ballerina track

Learn how to test your Ballerina exercises on Exercism

Follow the steps below to develop a solution for an exercise and test it locally.

Download the exercise

Open a Command Prompt and execute the command below with the name of the preferred exercise to download it.

exercism download --track ballerina --exercise <exercise-name>

Develop your solution

  1. Execute the command below to navigate to the directory of the newly downloaded exercise.

    Tip: The directory location in the command below depends on your OS and your configured Exercism workspace. You can find out your workspace location by executing the exercism configure command.

    cd ~/exercism/ballerina/hello-world/

  2. Follow the provided instructions and develop a solution for the exercise.

Test your solution

Some Ballerina exercises will have a single test, while others will have multiple tests. The tests can be found in the respective test file of the /tests directory inside the root directory of the exercise.

Test exercise with a single test

Execute the command below to run the test of the exercise.

By default, only the first test is enabled. This is intentional as it allows you to focus on just making that one test pass.

bal test

Test exercise with multiple tests

Follow the steps below to test an exercise with multiple tests.

  1. Once the first test passes, enable the next test by removing the enable: false property of the @test:Config annotation.

    @test:Config {
  enable: false
}
function nextTestCase() {
}

  2. Execute the command below to run the enabled test.

  bal test
  1. Repeat the two steps above to enable the remaining tests.

You have successfully completed the exercise by enabling all tests and making sure that your implementation passes each one.

Good luck and have fun solving the exercises!

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