[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 657

[Jason House]

The practice of commenting out unit tests is generally a bad idea. Historically, I've seen it done a lot in Phobos. It's bad because such tests are easily forgotten about.

NUnit has the [Ignore] attribute. Other test suites have expected failures. The basic idea is to leave tests that fail due to a legitimate bug such that the overall result is success but the details still show the problems.

As an example, cruise control with NUnit would colorize status bars based on what fraction of tests were success, failure, or ignored. (green, red, and yellow respectively) 

I'll get off my soap box now...

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On Sep 2, 2010, at 1:59 AM, "dsource.org" <noreply at dsource.org> wrote:

> dmd commit, revision 657
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> user: braddr
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> msg:
> reenable fail274.d since the halt it was hitting has been removed
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> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/657
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