Counting passed/failed unit tests

[Martin Nowak]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:08:50 +0200, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> On Monday, October 24, 2011 11:23 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> I'm not sure why it just stops after the first failing unittest
>> though. What is the point of that 'failed' counter?
>
> It's a long standing issue that when one unit test fails within a  
> module, no
> more within that module are run (though fortunately, a while back it was  
> fixed
> so that other modules' unit tests will still run). As I recall, there  
> had to
> be a change to the compiler to fix it, but I don't known/remember the  
> details.
> Certainly, the issue still stands.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

It's also annoying that the runtime quits with a non-zero exit code
when you return false from your unit tester.
Somehow the boolean return became a flag for fail/success rather than for
program continuation.

martin