Parallel execution of unittests

[Byron via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 11:44:11 +0000, w0rp wrote:

> On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 11:05:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2014-04-30 23:35, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed. I think we should look into parallelizing all unittests. --
>>> Andrei
>>
>> I recommend running the tests in random order as well.
> 
> This is a bad idea. Tests could fail only some of the time. Even if bugs
> are missed, I would prefer it if tests did exactly the same thing every
> time.

Running tests in random order helps find hidden dependencies, but I 
wouldn't want it as a default.  I lot of unittesting libraries offer 
this.  If you don't run tests often it doesn't help much, but if you do 
TDD it can help.