• Atila Neves (12/12) Jan 15 2014 I'm going to try and get them to agree to use D to write unit
• bearophile (5/7) Jan 15 2014 The built-in D unittesting is handy, but it's a little
• Atila Neves (3/11) Jan 15 2014 I meant this:
• Meta (6/14) Jan 15 2014 Luckily there are some libraries in development to help with this:
• Craig Dillabaugh (5/13) Jan 15 2014 But D's built-in unit testing is still more powerful than C++'s
• "Aziz =?UTF-8?B?S8O2a3NhbCI=?= <aziz.koeksal gmail.com> (9/13) Jan 15 2014 The only thing that built-in D-unittests buy you is that they get

"Atila Neves" <atila.neves gmail.com> writes:

I'm going to try and get them to agree to use D to write unit 
tests in. We've inherited a C codebase, I think it's a good use 
case but then again I would.

I'm hoping to win them over with:

- Fast compilation times, making TDD easier
- No test registration (compile-time reflection)
- Easy oncurrent execution
- Look, it looks like C! (especially since it'll be testing C 
code)

I don't know if it'll be enough to win over C++, but as long as 
we escape the C trap for the unit tests as well I'll be happy.

Atila

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Atila Neves:

 I don't know if it'll be enough to win over C++, but as long as 
 we escape the C trap for the unit tests as well I'll be happy.

The built-in D unittesting is handy, but it's a little 
underpowered.

Bye,
bearophile

"Atila Neves" <atila.neves gmail.com> writes:

I meant this:

https://github.com/atilaneves/unit-threaded

On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 17:02:42 UTC, bearophile wrote:
 Atila Neves:

 I don't know if it'll be enough to win over C++, but as long 
 as we escape the C trap for the unit tests as well I'll be 
 happy.

 The built-in D unittesting is handy, but it's a little 
 underpowered.

 Bye,
 bearophile

"Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 17:02:42 UTC, bearophile wrote:
 Atila Neves:

 I don't know if it'll be enough to win over C++, but as long 
 as we escape the C trap for the unit tests as well I'll be 
 happy.

 The built-in D unittesting is handy, but it's a little 
 underpowered.

 Bye,
 bearophile

Luckily there are some libraries in development to help with this:

http://code.dlang.org/packages/dunit
https://github.com/atilaneves/unit-threaded
https://github.com/jostly/specd
https://github.com/nomad-software/dunit

"Craig Dillabaugh" <cdillaba cg.scs.carleton.ca> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 17:02:42 UTC, bearophile wrote:
 Atila Neves:

 I don't know if it'll be enough to win over C++, but as long 
 as we escape the C trap for the unit tests as well I'll be 
 happy.

 The built-in D unittesting is handy, but it's a little 
 underpowered.

 Bye,
 bearophile

But D's built-in unit testing is still more powerful than C++'s 
non-existing built-in unit testing, right?  Or are the latest 
revisions to the C++ language adding that too?

Good luck Atila

"Aziz =?UTF-8?B?S8O2a3NhbCI=?= <aziz.koeksal gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 18:20:08 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
wrote:
 But D's built-in unit testing is still more powerful than C++'s 
 non-existing built-in unit testing, right?  Or are the latest 
 revisions to the C++ language adding that too?

 Good luck Atila

The only thing that built-in D-unittests buy you is that they get 
executed automatically in debug builds before main() is called. 
Sure it's convenient and may encourage developers to start 
writing tests right away, but after a while you'll find out that 
they are very limited. I'm not arguing against them, however, you 
have to use a library or write something yourself if you have 
higher requirements.