In case anyone's curious what the most popular tes...

# kotest

[Ben Woodworth]

In case anyone's curious what the most popular test style might be, here's some very non-rigorous results
Note that there can be multiple results per repo, so e.g. a large project with opinionated use of one style could be throwing the results off

[sam]

StringSpec surprises me a bit.
FunSpec is the "default" in many examples, so that's understandable, and DescribeSpec is the Javascript style, so makes sense.

[sam]

Expect and Feature spec probably shouldn't exist 🙂

[sam]

Yeah I only use fun test 🙂

[Davio]

I mainly use ShouldSpec, but I'm the minority I guess

[LeoColman]

I use ShouldSpec when the wording makes sense

[LeoColman]

And that's on rare ocasions. I usually stick to FunSpec

[sam]

Is it possible to get a chart of how many specs per repo ?

[Iliyan Germanov]

Isn't FreeSpec, a StringSpec but on steroids? I mean the support for nesting tests. And if that's the case why do we need StringSpec?

[LeoColman]

I think because of gradle

[LeoColman]

It doesn't support a test that is also a container

[LeoColman]

So there must be a difference

[sam]

Once we ditch the gradle test plugin in kotest 6.0 we can get rid of the distinction between containers and tests, and StringSpec can be an alias to FreeSpec