Serious Problems with the Test Suite

Stefan Koch uplink.coder at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 18 02:22:55 UTC 2020


On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 23:59:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> A good test suite should:
>
> 1. verify that things that are supposed to work do work
>
> [...]

Most of those could be fixed with an improved test runner. If we 
did a timeout per test.

Another oblivious improvement would be printing only the tests 
which failed.

As for the missing comments, I think that's a plus.
When introducing a change in how dmd interprets D's semantics, 
one should be forced to scratch their head.


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