Breaking changes in Visual C++ 2015

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 8 09:04:59 PDT 2015


On Friday, 8 May 2015 at 14:16:27 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 8 May 2015 at 09:52:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> That's not to say that there's not value in some of those 
>> features, but I think that the language itself has a very good 
>> foundation for unit testing with covers the 90% case, and if 
>> others want to create their own unit testing frameworks to 
>> handle more complex cases, they're certainly free to do so.
>
> My estimation is 20% - they apply to simplistic self-contained 
> libraries like phobos and warp. My impression is not much code 
> falls in this category. Even dmd doesn't, and it's already 
> rather simplistic.

When the tests aren't self-contained, you're not really doing 
unit tests anymore. That's getting more into component test 
territory and the like, and that's a whole other ballgame.

- Jonathan M Davis


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