External lib unittests: they're killin me!

[Kagamin]

On Wednesday, 22 May 2013 at 17:06:59 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> it's only module level granularity.
>
> I agree that a library solution is the way to go, however there 
> needs to be
> a way to have finer granularity, ie being able to call 
> individual unittests.
> I gave the reasons in the 2nd post in this thread. Syntax would 
> be:
> unittest(test_fun){...}
> having a short syntax such as this will make people use it.
>
> digressing, I wish there would be a simple non-anonymous way to 
> vote for
> such features, to see whether most people agree/disagree. It's 
> easier than
> voting by email, which invariably gets lost in digressions (as 
> I'm doing
> here).

For a real life project you probably need a unittest framework. 
Current approach is for an optimistic case when you mostly have 
green test runs and just unittests are enough to test the whole 
system.