HOWTO: automatic test a D program

[simendsjo]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:41:44 +0200, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-08-09 13:24, maboiteaspam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I m looking for some methods/tools to implement tests on my very little
>> application about strings manipulation.
>>
>> I m looking to
>> - avoid regressions
>> - measure performance
>> - learn it
>>
>> I made a quick search on the newsgroup archives, without success.
>>
>> In case my question is obvious, i would say that this is my very first
>> desktop program,  i m really unfamiliar with this environment.
>>
>> Any suggestions are appreciated !
>> bye
>
> D has built in support for unit testing. It's a very simple system but  
> it should cover the first point, regressions. It's possible to build a  
> library solution on top with more features. D also supports contract  
> programming via pre and post conditions.
>
> http://dlang.org/unittest.html
> http://dlang.org/dbc.html
>
> I have a very simple unit test framework part of my serialization  
> library:
>
> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange/blob/master/orange/test/UnitTester.d
>

There's also dunit: https://github.com/jmcabo/dunit
and benchmark from std.datetime:  
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#benchmark