Cool stuff! I'll have a look later. Thanks.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Andrej Mitrovic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > You know, I just had an idea. It would be really cool to have some sort
> of
> > generalized template function which can test other functions in various
> > ways. You could pass strings as options, where you might choose the type
> > of
> > testing being done, such as verification tests or performance tests.. Or
> > if
> > a function is designed to write a file on disk, maybe you'd want to have
> > an
> > option for the maximum number of tests to run on that function (you don't
> > want to be left with 10000 files written in some temp directory
> > somewhere..), or a test to see if a function will fail with invalid
> input,
> > etc.
> >
> > Well it's just an idea, I better take a look at the existing test
> > frameworks
> > and see how it's done there.
> >
>
> Probably not quite as fancy as what you're talking about, but my SemiTwist
> D
> Tools library has a module that includes something that's similar to assert
> but:
>
> - Allows to you verify that a particular statement throws a particular type
> of exception.
> - Properly reports if an expression throws (and you didn't expect it to).
> - Doesn't abort the program on failure.
> - Reports "expected" expression and "actual" value.
>
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/semitwist/browser/trunk/src/semitwist/apps/tests/deferAssertTest/main.d
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/semitwist/browser/trunk/src/semitwist/util/deferAssert.d
>
> It does need some clean-up and improvements, but it at least works.
> (Although, trunk is currently in the process of switching from D1/Tango to
> D2/Phobos, so the latest revisions might be broken and it definitely
> doesn't
> take advantage of D2-specific features yet. But the version included with
> Goldie 0.3 does work fine on D1/Tango though).
>
>
>

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