On Saturday, 12 October 2019 at 09:52:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Saturday, October 12, 2019 2:18:02 AM MDT Martin Brezeln via
Digitalmars- d-learn wrote:
Is it possible to execute only certain modules or tests which
are defined in certain directories?
For example, in go one can run "go test ./XYZ" to execute ony
tests in ./XYZ or "go test ./..." to execute all the tests in
and under the current directory.
Please don't get me wrong, i do not wish to start a discussion
about doing things the "go way". I am asking if there is a way
to
achieve a similar result with dub (or maybe without dub?
🤔)
The default test runner does not support running only some of
the tests. It simply runs all of the unittest blocks in the
binary prior to running main, and tests only get skipped when
they're either not compiled in or when a previous unittest
block in that module failed.
You could set up your build so that you had targets which only
compiled specific directories so that the only unit tests that
were run were the ones in those directories, but I don't think
that it's possible to do anything like that with dub.
Certainly, if it is, it would be a royal pain to set up.
Really, if you want to control which tests get run instead of
simply always running them all, then you'll need to use an
alternate test runner which supports that. There are a few test
runners available on code.dlang.org, and I expect that at least
one of them supports that (probably multiple do).
- Jonathan M Davis
This would be helpful. About all C++ unit test frameworks have
named test and you can select a specific one or several in the
command line. Very useful when you work on a specific test and
other tests take some time to finish.
having
unittest OptionalName
{
...
}
would actually help a lot. I don't think this would be very
difficult to implement and wouldn't break anything.
