unittests are really part of the build, not a special run

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/30/15 4:15 PM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I'd rather see DMD automatically pass the expression that triggered the
> error (as it is done in C) to replace this useless "Unittest failure"
> that forces me to look through the code.

Often you need the context.

> D has the advantage that it catches most errors at CT. You can write a
> lot of code and just compile it to ensure it's more or less correct. I
> often write code that won't pass the unittests, but I need to check if
> my template / CT logic is correct. It may takes 20 compilations cycle
> before I run the unittests. Running the tests as part of the build would
> REALLY slow down the process -especially given that unittest is
> communicated to imported module, which means imported libraries. You
> don't want to catch unittests failures on every compilation cycle, but
> rather before your code make it to the repo - that's what CI systems are
> for -.

I disagree.


Andrei