On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:32:30 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I just had an idea to help keep track of unittests, right now we're turning on
>printf's at the beginning of a test to know which one fails, and adding
>printfs everywhere quickly becomes redundant. Also if the test succeeds and
>execution fails at some other point, the last printf is then misleading.
>
>---
>module sample;
>unittest("myTest") {}
>---
>
>With a few runtime changes, it could be made to print "unittest:
>sample.myTest..." before calling the test routine, and "PASS\n" as the routine
>returns. It could have its own compiler switch to turn it on or off globally,
>and support for a custom output handler should the user want to redirect
>output to a GUI or something.
>
>Right now I made the following template to do that:
>---
>private template UnittestTrace(string test) {
> debug(TEST)
> immutable UnittestTrace =
> "printf(\"unittest: std.text.String." ~ test ~ "...
> \");"
> "scope(success) printf(\"PASS\n\");";
> else
> immutable UnittestTrace = "";
>}
>unittest {
> mixin(UnittestTrace!"myTest");
>}
>---
>
>However being a dreamer and all, I would like to see support for such a
>feature pushed to the D runtime.
>
>J
Something similar has been purposed.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2749
Gide
