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[Linting Rule] Software Has Tests
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Software Has Tests [overview]
This rule ports the following steps of R CMD check (see the conformance table for the legend):
| # | Step | Coverage | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | for code which exercises the package (book) | 🟩 | only tests count, examples and vignettes do not |
This rule is a best-effort rule.
Finds software projects without tests (test files in a test directory or test function calls in R code).
This linting rule is implemented in src/linter/rules/software-has-tests.ts.
Linting rules can be configured by passing a configuration object to the linter query as shown in the example below.
The software-has-tests rule accepts the following configuration options:
-
additionalTestFunctions
Additional test function patterns beyond the defaults
R CMD check #24
cat("hello")The linting query can be used to run this rule on the above example:
[ { "type": "linter", "rules": [ { "name": "software-has-tests", "config": {} } ] } ]Results (prettified and summarized):
Query: linter (1 ms)
╰ Software Has Tests (software-has-tests):
╰ certain:
╰ No tests found in the project
More examples are the test cases in test/functionality/linter/lint-software-has-tests.test.ts.