D For A Web Developer

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:36:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/30/14, 12:25 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 19:08:15 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2014-04-30 11:43, Dicebot wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is common complaint I still fail to understand. I have 
>>>> never ever
>>>> wanted to run a single unit test, why would one need it? If 
>>>> running all
>>>> module tests at once creates problems than either module is 
>>>> too big or
>>>> unit tests are not really unit tests.
>>>
>>> Why would I run more tests than I have to?
>>
>> Because you hardly notice difference between 0.1 and 0.5 
>> seconds
>
> *cough* std.datetime *cough* :o)

Pretty much everyone agrees that std.datetime needs to be split 
into smaller module which was one of my original points.

> One good example is networking tests - if I worked on an 
> airplane I'd love to not test tests that need connectivity with 
> a simple regex.

Again, networking (as well as any other I/O) has no place in unit 
tests. Never. Supporting such kind of tests natively means 
designing completely new system not changing existing one.

For most simple example, you can't run non-unit tests in parallel 
without explicit annotations from programmer (your other thread).