Parallel execution of unittests

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 11:44:12 UTC, 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.

They _should_ do exactly the same thing every time. Which is why 
running in threads or at random is a great way to enforce that.

Atila