On Monday, 23 October 2017 at 12:38:01 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
"parallel test execution (from it’s name, the main goal of
unit-threaded) was quite problematic with the first test suite
we converted"
I'd love to know what the problems were, especially since it's
possible to run in just one thread with a command-line option,
or to use UDAs to run certain tests in a module in the same
thread (sometimes one has to change global state, as much as
that is usually not a good idea).
Delays are our business, so we use the clock and timers
everywhere. Long ago, we introduced Singletons to be able to
replace the implementations for unit testing. By now, lots of
tests fake time and it's a problem if they do so in parallel.
It's not too hard, however, to change this to thread-local
replacements of the clock and timers.
Another problem was using the same port number for different test
cases. We now apply "The port 0 trick"
(https://www.dnorth.net/2012/03/17/the-port-0-trick/).
"With the new static foreach feature however, it is easy to
implement parameterized tests without the support of a
framework"
It is, but it's the same problem with plain asserts in terms of
knowing what went wrong unless the parameterised value happens
to be in the assertion. And there's also the issue of running
the test only for the value/type that it failed for instead of
going through the whole static foreach everytime.
That's why I recommend to put the `static foreach` around the
`unitest`. My example shows how to instantiate test descriptions
(with CTFE of `format`) so that these string attributes are used
to report failures or to slectively execute a test in isolation.
