Parallel execution of unittests

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu May 1 12:26:07 PDT 2014


On 5/1/14, 12:05 PM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Thu, 01 May 2014 08:07:51 -0700
> schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>> On 5/1/14, 4:31 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>> @Andrei do you think having to explicitly import modules to be
>>> tested is an issue?
>>
>> Well it kinda is. All that's written on the package is "unittest", we
>> should add no fine print to it. -- Andrei
>
> It'd be possible to make it work transparently, but that's much
> more work. We might need to do that at some point, as it's also
> necessary for std.benchmark and similar code but for now that's probably
> over-engineering.
>
> Here's the revived pull request:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3518
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/782

I'm unclear what this work does even after having read the description. 
What does it require in addition to just sprinkling unittests around? -- 
Andrei


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