As implemented currently, the {{clojure.test/use-fixtures}} hooks will run on a per-deftest basis, but not on a per-testing ({{clojure.test/testing}}) basis.
So, for a given deftest with multiple {{testing}} clauses, {{use-fixtures}} will be only run once.
Coming from an RSpec (Ruby) background this is surprising - the default behavior is the opposite, and in my opinion more intuitive.
Personally, this resulted in me writing tests that gave false positives - i.e. it rendered a portion of my test suite useless until I noticed this (by mere luck).
Anecdotically, I commented the issue with another Clojure developer and he also suffered the issue once. I mean, I'm not alone in this one, and surely other developers have stumbled with this despite the lack of JIRA report until now.
In any case, the current working alternative (one deftest per test which depends on use-fixtures) can be overly verbose (in comparison with my original attempt), and also the need for doing that in the first place can be easy to forget.
I'd ask to:
- Implement an option for use-fixtures called e.g. {{:run-nested?}}
- Make this option mandatory to specify, i.e. programmers pass either {{:run-nested? true}} or {{:run-nested? false}}, unless a global default is set beforehand. People should be aware of this nuance and be forced to think about it at least once (else they risk false positives/negatives)
I hope this sounds like a reasonable, needed, non-breaking proposal.
Cheers - Victor
