On Friday, 25 October 2013 at 13:23:46 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote:
What I'm missing, and apparently others in the original thread, is a way to run tests selectively. It is difficult to do with unittest because they are not named. If there were a way to annotate the test and pull them out that way it would be great. Can it be done?
You can completely re-implement default test by using runtime hook http://wiki.dlang.org/Runtime_Hooks ("_d_unittest" should do AFAIK)
In that runner you can manually get all unittest blocks in the program as functions using __traits(getUnittest). One can make any custom decisions for running specific unittest blocks based on User-Defined Attributes attached to it.
Benefit of this approach is that the very same tests remain runnable in traditional out-of-the-box way if you don't use that library runner.
I remember Jacob Carlborg doing some experiments in that direction but did not track any further progress.
