Kotest 4.0 migration guide

What’s changed in the new version

Intro Link to heading

In the Kotlintest adventures post I described how my team solved different issues faced while implementing test cases in Kotlintest, the testing library for Kotlin. Recently there was a major release of that library. Let’s see what has been changed and what steps to take in order to make use of the newest version of the library.

What’s your name, Kotlintest? Link to heading

The most obvious change in the library is its name. The name was changed to Kotest, because of too much similarity with JetBrains kotlin.test package.

I started the migration from updating project dependencies. The current version of the library is 4.0.3. In addition to changing group name and module name, I had to add one more dependency for core assertions. Moreover, module names are suffixed with “-jvm”.

Please bear in mind that if you are using Kotlintest Gradle plugin, its name currently is the same as before.

Where the heck are all the assertions and specs? Link to heading

Kotest creators restructured the project quite a bit. A lot of classes and functions changed their locations in packages. So the next step of the migration is to fix the imports. Spec types now resides in io.kotest.core.spec.style and functions like should, shouldBe, shouldNot were moved to io.kotest.matchers package. While assertSoftly can be found in a package named io.kotest.assertions.

I think what you can do to deal with it quickly, is to find and replace in the project scope:

io.kotlintest.specs -> io.kotest.core.spec.style
io.kotlintest.should -> io.kotest.matchers.should
io.kotlintest.assertSoftly -> io.kotest.assertions.assertSoftly
io.kotlintest.TestCase -> io.kotest.core.test.TestCase

For sure there are more changes like these, but for me it was enough.

Project config Link to heading

In the Kotest 4.0 we don’t need to put project configuration class in the special package like it was before. Instead of having project config in io.kotlintest.provided we can now create a configuration class wherever we want. Kotest will automatically scan the classpath to find it. An important note is ProjectLevelConfig class has been removed. I used a more general Extension interface to fill the gap.

Last but not least Link to heading

Finally, I needed to update the Kotlin language version. There was a problem in the runtime. The definition of the class kotlin.time.MonotonicTimeSource could not be found. Kotest is using experimental Kotlin features for profiling and measuring the time of test execution. I updated to the latest version of Kotlin language, and it fixed the issue.

What about fixes? Link to heading

I didn’t have a chance to take a closer look, but I’ve noticed that the arrow dependency issue our team had to deal with has been now resolved. 🎉