http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1952

           Summary: Support a unit test handler
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla@digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: jason.james.house@gmail.com


I'd like to see a way for the D language to push unit test handling into an external library.  If a unit test is treated as a delegate, it can then boil down to a single call to a unit test handler.

I'd suggest using any args of the unit test to be arguments into whatever unit test handler exists.  This would allow use of special libraries built to leverage an already existing unit testing framework.

Example:

source:
unittest("My test name"){ ... }

... causes the compiler to call:
void unitTestHandler(delegate void dg(), char[])


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On 27/03/2008, d-bugmail@puremagic.com <d-bugmail@puremagic.com> wrote:
>  I'd like to see a way for the D language to push unit test handling into an
>  external library.

Why?

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1952


jason.james.house@gmail.com changed:

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------- Comment #2 from jason.james.house@gmail.com  2008-03-27 06:47 -------
> Why?

Simple. It allows users of D to make a lot of unit testing design decisions up front avoid code bloat inside unit tests. Should exceptions be caught? Should all tests be run? How do you handle expected failures? How do you report results? Can D be hooked up to continuous integration program X? Etc...


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Janice Caron wrote:

> On 27/03/2008, d-bugmail@puremagic.com <d-bugmail@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>  I'd like to see a way for the D language to push unit test handling into
>>  an external library.
> 
> Why?

Tango already has support for a such a handler, but it would be nice if this could be extended further by adding support for named unittests.

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Lars Ivar Igesund