Testing package proposed for Phobos

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 9 February 2015 at 04:40:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 06:06:59PM -0800, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I.e. by providing standard mockups for components, and 
>> standard tests
>> for component protocols, we can significantly improve the unit 
>> testing
>> and standard conformance of user designed components.
>
> Yes, I've suggested this a long time ago but it seemed to have 
> fallen by
> the wayside. It would be good to provide standard testing stuff 
> for:
>
> - Non-forward input ranges.
> - Forward but non-bidirectional ranges.
> - Bidirectional but not random access ranges.
> - Infinite ranges vs. finite ranges.
> - Ranges with reference semantics vs. value semantics.
> - Array-like ranges that are not arrays.
>
> Ideally, every range-based function in Phobos should be tested 
> with each
> of these variations, to ensure correct semantics under all
> representative use cases.
>
>
> T
>
> --
> Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it!  
> -- Mark Twain

Was the Mark Twain quote intentional?