RE: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-07-31 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
-devs | Subject: Unit-testing of GHC code | | I spent whole day looking for a bug that lurks somewhere in my code, but I know I | could find it in 2-3 hours if I only could write unit tests for my code. So the | question is: how can I write HUnit and QuickCheck (and maybe SmallCheck) tests

Re: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-07-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:10:46PM +0200, Jan Stolarek wrote: and so on (Hunit would only be a convenient interface here). The question is how can I import a GHC module from within the testsuite and call its functions to test it they behave propertly? An attempt to simply import the

Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-07-30 Thread Jan Stolarek
I spent whole day looking for a bug that lurks somewhere in my code, but I know I could find it in 2-3 hours if I only could write unit tests for my code. So the question is: how can I write HUnit and QuickCheck (and maybe SmallCheck) tests for GHC and possibly make them a part of testsuite?