Sean Kelly, el 15 de julio a las 19:52 me escribiste:
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
> > On 07/15/2010 06:59 PM, Benjamin Shropshire wrote:
> >> Beside, I don't now nor will I ever care about ANYTHING after the first
> >> failed assert in any given block.
> > 
> > Walter, it would be great if you could substantiate some concrete examples 
> > by pasting from your tests. Thanks!
> 
> I've been thinking about this, and I realized that I'd really like different 
> behaviors for different types of tests.  For testing stateless code, the most 
> convenient thing would be Walter's behavior.  For stateful code, throwing on 
> error is preferable, since once the state is invalid further testing is 
> useless.  I wondered whether one could argue that with testing stateful code, 
> when something fails an exception would likely be thrown from inside the 
> object and abort the test anyway, but I think this isn't true.  For boundary 
> testing, I'd typically want to ensure that AssertErrors were thrown when a 
> contract was violated, etc, so I'm still likely to do something like:
> 
>     unittest {
>         auto o = MyObject;
>         assert(throws!AssertError(o.divide(1,0)));
>         ...
>     }
> 
> It wouldn't be terribly onerous to me to break stateless tests into multiple 
> unittest blocks, but it's probably more readable to simply have:
> 
>     unittest {
>         verify(sort("bac") == "abc");
>         verify(sort("bba") == "abb");
>         ...
>     }

check() check() check()! =)

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