Introducing clj-social-labs: Clojure integration tests against social networks

I am working on a project (more details about this later) that integrates with social networks. To start with I am integrating with facebook. In my code only facebook.gateway namespace will be directly calling facebook graph API. Rest of my code will be dependent on facebook.gateway to interact with facebook API. I believe in automated unit and integration testing.Facebook allows you to create test users and make them friends. You can treat facebook test users as normal users and call all facebook API against them. I want to write facebook integration tests some what like this,

1. In facebook
2. jack = create-test-user “jack”
3. jill = create-test-user “jill”
4. mary = create-test-user “mary”
5. login-as jack
6. become-friend-of jill
7. become-friend-of mary
8. Verify whether my facebook.gateway/friends-list function returns two users

So I started a project called clj-social-lab. It is a clojure library to help you do integration tests with social networks. To start with, this library only integrates with facebook.

Currently you can ,

• Create Facebook Test Users
• Delete Facebook Test Users
• Delete All Facebook Test Users
• Make Facebook Test Users friends

This library also comes with some testing utilities that make it easy for you to write integration level tests.

For example, this is how my facebook.gateway/friend-list test looks like with clj-social-lab,

in-facebook-lab : This macros takes care of deleting all test users that are created as part of this test. So you do not end up with too many facebook test users. In fact, facebook has a limit of 500 test users per application.

This is just the start. I will be adding more functionalities when need arises in my project or when there is enough demand for a functionality.

Feedback is appreciated.