Named unittests

[Atila Neves]

On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 14:56:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 5/18/19 2:20 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 05:49:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> Dmd already has -run, so it's not too much of a stretch to 
>>> change the behaviour of -unittest into the equivalent of 
>>> today's:
>>>
>>>     dmd -unittest -run blah.d
>> 
>> Actually, right after I went to bed, I realized the solution 
>> to everyone's problem.
>> 
>> We all want `-unittest=package,list` to control which tests 
>> are run.
>
> Doesn't that seem a bit much? It seems to me you either want to 
> run unittests or not, why run just a few? Going with the 
> typechecking metaphor - do we want to check some modules but 
> not others?

I frequently only run a few unit tests - usually the ones that 
are currently failing. To me at least it's a question of screen 
real estate and attention.