Parallel execution of unittests

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 09:26:39 -0400, Byron <byron.heads at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Note the order of unit tests is defined by druntime. It can easily be  
modified.

-Steve