Parallel execution of unittests

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/1/14, 4:35 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:02:54 -0700
> schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>>> To summarize: It provides a function pointer for every  unit test to
>>> druntime or user code. This is actually easy to do. Naming tests
>>> requires changes in the parser, but I guess that shouldn't be
>>> difficult either.
>>
>> That's fantastic, would you be willing to reconsider that work?
>
> Are you still interested in this?

Yes.

> I guess we could build a std.test phobos module to completely replace
> the current unittest implementation, see:
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/ljtbch$lg6$1@digitalmars.com
>
> This seems to be a better solution, especially considering extension
> possibilities.

I think anything that needs more than the user writing unittests and 
adding a line somewhere would be suboptimal. Basically we need all we 
have now, just run in parallel.


Andrei