Parallel execution of unittests

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/14, 9:19 AM, Byron wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:02:54 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>>
>> I think indeed a small number of unittests rely on order of execution.
>> Those will be still runnable with a fork factor of 1. We'd need a way to
>> specify that - either a flag or:
>>
>> static shared this() { Runtime.unittestThreads = 1; }
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Named tested seems like a no brainier to me.
>
> Maybe nested unittests?
>
> unittest OrderTests {
>    // setup for all child tests?
>
>    unittest a {
>
>    }
>
>    unittest b {
>
>    }
>
> }

I wouldn't want to get too excited about stuff without there being a 
need for it. We risk overcomplicating things (i.e what happens inside 
loops etc).

> I also wonder if its just better to extend/expose the unittest API for
> more advanced things like order of execution, test reporting, and parallel
> execution. And we can just support an external unittesting library to do
> all the advanced testing options.

That would be pretty rad.


Andrei