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I'm totally ok with writing a "normal" test capturing the IO for this.

Would just like to know if it is possible to use Doctest.

An example would be:

defmodule CLI do

  @doc """
  Politely says Hello.

  ## Examples

      iex> CLI.main([])
      "Hello dear person." # this would be the expected IO output
  """
  def main(args) do
    IO.puts "Hello dear person."
  end
end

defmodule CLITest do
  use ExUnit.Case
  doctest CLI
end
Ricardo Valeriano
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You can use the same function as you'd use in a normal test: ExUnit.CaptureIO.capture_io. This might not be a function suited for doctests though when you add more functionality to the function.

defmodule CLI do
  @doc """
  Politely says Hello.

  ## Examples

      iex> import ExUnit.CaptureIO
      iex> capture_io(fn -> CLI.main([]) end)
      "Hello dear person.\\n"
  """
  def main(args) do
    IO.puts "Hello dear person."
  end
end

$ mix test
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Finished in 0.03 seconds
1 test, 0 failures
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  • Yeah, understood. Yeah, for this specific thing, I think is better to just go for the "actual" test. But this clarifies a bunch. Thank @Dogbert. =). – Ricardo Valeriano Oct 12 '17 at 12:25