HOWTO: automatic test a D program

[simendsjo]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:39:34 +0200, simendsjo <simendsjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

And unittest blocks of course:

unittest {
   // test code here
}

dmd -unittest