LuaUnit Test Adapter for Visual Studio Code

Lua Test Adapter (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lej.vscode-lua-test-adapter) This is a LuaUnit test adapter for Test Explorer UI (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hbenl.vscode-test-explorer)

Supported

• Detect LuaUnit tests
• Run LuaUnit tests
• Debugging
  • Depends on Lua Debug (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=actboy168.lua-debug)
  • Lua Debug has a known issue with Lua 5.4 (https://github.com/actboy168/lua-debug/issues/103)

Not supported

• Automatic reloading of test definitions
• Autorun

Getting Started

1. Create an empty folder example
2. Download LuaUnit (example/luaunit.lua)

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bluebird75/luaunit/master/luaunit.lua

3. Create a test file (example/test.lua) with the below content

luaunit  = require('luaunit')

function testPass()
    luaunit.assertEquals({1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 3})
end

function testFail()
    luaunit.assertEquals({1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4})
end

os.exit(luaunit.LuaUnit.run())

4. If the Lua executable is not available via lua create .vscode/settings.json

{
  "luaTestAdapter.luaExe": "C:/Program Files/Lua/lua-5.1.5_Win64_bin/lua5.1.exe",
}

5. Run (or debug) the tests via the Test Explorer UI

Configuration