{"id":2701,"date":"2022-02-23T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2022-02-23T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:48:21","slug":"selective-unit-testing-in-d-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/selective-unit-testing-in-d-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective Unit Testing in D Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last article<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, I briefly explained how D<\/strong><\/em> language has built-in support for performing unit tests. I feel this is an advantage over many current languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What if we want to run only a subset of unit tests? Although it is a good idea to run the unit tests every time there is a change in the code, if the project is large, running all the tests every time might be an overhead and not necessary too.<\/p>\n

In a real project, we might have separate unit tests for function definitions, classes and so on. Let us suppose that at a certain point in time, we wish to test just the function unit tests, ignoring class unit tests or the other way. How do we achieve this?<\/p>\n

First, here is sample D<\/strong><\/em> code that defines a function “findMax”<\/strong><\/em> and a class “BankAccount”<\/strong><\/em> along with respective unit test blocks:<\/p>\n

\"Code<\/a>
Code with Unit Tests<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As before, we enable “unittest”<\/strong><\/em> in the Project<\/strong><\/em> properties:<\/p>\n

\"Enabling<\/a>
Enabling Unit Tests<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we build and run the program, the output is as expected (remember, only the unit tests are run):<\/p>\n

\"Tests<\/a>
Tests Run OK<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What we have seen above is the normal way to run unit tests. Let us now get back to our earlier question: How to run only the unit test block that tests the function “findMax”<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n

It would have been nice if D<\/strong><\/em> language allowed “named”<\/strong><\/em> unit test blocks like so:<\/p>\n

\"Naming<\/a>
Naming Unittest Blocks<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If this were possible, then we might be able to specify which “named”<\/strong><\/em> tests must be run. Unfortunately, this won’t work and it results in compiler error!<\/p>\n

So what is the other option? Here is where “version”<\/strong><\/em> feature of the language comes in handy. It is a compiler (preprocessor)<\/strong><\/em> feature that can be used to include or exclude code fragments. It allows us to wrap unit test blocks in suitable “version”<\/strong><\/em> tags. In our case, we can do the following:<\/p>\n

\"Using<\/a>
Using Version Tags<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note that for convenience, I have grouped the unit test blocks together.<\/p>\n

Now, we can enable only the “function_unit_test”<\/strong><\/em> block this way:<\/p>\n

\"Enabling<\/a>
Enabling Function Tests Only<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we build the project now and run it, this is what we get:<\/p>\n

\"Program<\/a>
Program Output<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Similarly, we can enable “class_unit_test”<\/strong><\/em> if we want. Hope you get the idea.<\/p>\n

But what if we want “all”<\/strong><\/em> the unit tests to run? It would be tedious to enable all version tags individually. This is where “version assigment”<\/strong><\/em> feature comes in handy:<\/p>\n

\"Enabling<\/a>
Enabling All Unit Tests<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We can then enable “all_tests”<\/strong><\/em> version tag and this automatically takes care of including the full set of unit tests (or whatever have been assigned):<\/p>\n

\"Enabling<\/a>
Enabling the Compiler Flag<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we build and run the program, both the unit test blocks are executed:<\/p>\n

\"Program<\/a>
Program Output<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is quite convenient, isn’t it? Of course, nothing prevents us from grouping<\/strong><\/em> different unit tests using different version tags accoding to our requirement. What I have discussed above is just an example.<\/p>\n

Ideally, of course, I would prefer “named”<\/strong><\/em> unit test blocks as hinted earlier. Hope the language designers introduce such a feature in future!<\/p>\n

Here is the source code<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0used in this example.<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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