I’m looking at KotinTest for unit testing, and one of the examples talks about putting tests in “context blocks.”

class MyTests : FunSpec({
    context("a test group") {
        test("String length should return the length of the string") {
            "sammy".length shouldBe 5
            "".length shouldBe 0
        }
    }
})

What would be the purpose of this? Is this a kotlin thing? Or a kotlin test thing. It turns out googling for “kotlintest context” or “kotlin context” doesn’t find much that appears relevant.

It's not a Kotlin thing, can you try going to the declaration of

context

to see where it comes from?

It's in case you want to "nest" tests. So you can have more than one test block under a context block, and then they will be organized in a tree in intellij when you run the tests.