A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

kotlinlang

What are best practices to test a main.kts script?

Some of my scripts, I do put top level functions and for testing I call some of them with predefined arguments

But that's as far as I go. If I need more testing, I create a Gradle build

<@U79JY5TL3> do you mean launching the notebooks as part of the Gradle check task? I am interested in knowing if you have an easy way to set that up.

What I meant is if I have a script that is a `*.main.kts` file and I start needing tests, this is probably a sign it needs to be a more serious project

For notebooks yea, I hva no idea how to test

Probably I'd do the same and turn my notebook into a JVM cli tool

But the whole point of notebooks is that it's interactive so not sure I'd want to test much

&gt; Half joking but:
&gt; • no tests?
Somehow devs (me included!) often treat scripts like a second class citizen. We write it in languages we don’t fully understand and don’t test it. But in the end it’s often times driving vital pieces like the release process.

For now I’ve just added a --test flag:
<https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice/blob/c8ef6b7986134e7e24b184bbda0f5513725701e9/release.main.kts#L17>