This is a Leiningen plug-in that automatically refreshes and then runs your clojure.test tests when a file in your project changes

• Allows you to have a quick feedback cycle by automatically refreshing your code and running your tests.
• Runs previously failing tests first, giving you feedback even quicker.
• Can pass result of running your tests to a notification command of your choice.
• Has built in Growl notification support.
• Can be configured to only notify you on failures.
• Supports subset of Leiningen test selectors.
• Times how long it takes to run your tests.

Add the above to your ~/.lein/profiles.clj. It should look similar to below.

{:user {:plugins [[com.jakemccrary/lein-test-refresh "0.6.0"]]}}

Alternatively you may add it to your project.clj.

(defproject sample
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.6.0"]]
  :profiles {:dev {:plugins [[com.jakemccrary/lein-test-refresh "0.6.0"]]}})

Enter your project's root directory and run lein test-refresh. The output will look something like this.

$ lein test-refresh
*********************************************
*************** Running tests ***************

<standard clojure.test output>

Failed 1 of 215 assertions
Finished at 08:25:20.619 (run time: 9.691s)

Your terminal will just stay like that. Fairly often lein-test-refresh polls the file system to see if anything has changed. When there is a change your code is tested again.

If you need to rerun your tests without changing a file then hit Enter when focused on a running lein test-refresh.

lein-test-refresh supports specifying a notification command. This command is passed a short message after your tests have run. This command is configured through your project.clj or profiles.clj. For example, if you want to send OSX notifications using terminal-notifier then you would add the following to your project.clj or profiles.clj

:test-refresh {:notify-command ["terminal-notifier" "-title" "Tests" "-message"]} 

lein-test-refresh also has built-in Growl support. To receive Growl notifications run lein test-refresh :growl. This has been tested with modern versions of Growl for OS X, Linux, and Windows. You can also always set this to true by setting :test-refresh {:growl true}}. An example can be found in the sample project.clj.

:notify-on-success is another available option. It can be used to turn off notifications when your tests are successful. Set :notify-on-success false to turn off success notifications. An example can be found in the sample project.clj.

The latest version is the highest non-snapshot version found in CHANGES.md or whatever the below images says (sometimes image doesn't seem to load).

This project has not been tested with versions of Leiningen 1. This project is heavily based of lein-autoexpect which has been tested against Leiningen 1. I would expect this project to work as well but I'm not going to bother testing it nor do I plan on supporting it.

lein-test-refresh has been tested to work with Clojure 1.5.1 and 1.6 with Leiningen 2.3+.

Because of tools.namespace changes lein-test-refresh requires that your project use Clojure >= 1.3.0. If your project also depends on a version of tools.namespace < 0.2.1 you may see occasional exceptions.

Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Jake McCrary

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.