DustMite, a D test case minimization tool

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tue, 24 May 2011 00:04:39 +0300, Robert Clipsham  
<robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote:

> On 20/05/2011 23:01, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> I've tested it with a self-induced "bug" in std.datetime, it seems to
>> work great. If you find that it breaks on something, let me know.
>
> Wow, this tool works fantastically! Narrowed down a 5000 line test case  
> to about 80 lines (I've managed to get it down to 26 lines by removing  
> comments/make semantic changes there's no way it would be able to do  
> without some sort of semantic analysis). I'd note that the code wasn't  
> the most simple either, involving templates, mixins, ctfe, objects, etc.  
> A couple of notes that we've already discussed, but I'll paste here for  
> others:
>
>   * The tool spent about 10 minutes figuring out if it was ok to delete  
> files in .git, then deleting them - this pretty much doubled the time  
> taken to run the tool!
>   * It took me a while to figure out, the test command is run from the  
> directory you pass on the command line.
>
> You also score bonus points for being far simpler to set up than delta,  
> and working *a lot* better than it (for D at least, I haven't tried it  
> with anything else). Well done.

Thanks! I've improved it based on your and others' feedback, and wrote  
some documentation:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki


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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net