Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Unit tests

[Brian H. <bri...@ql...>]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> > I think it would be a good idea to add unit tests to all the library
> > functions using OUnit:
> > http://home.wanadoo.nl/maas/ocaml/
> >
> > I think unit tests are *less* necessary in Ocaml due to our wonderful type
> > system, but they're still a good idea.
> 
> I agree, but I'm not familiar enough with others langages Unit tests library
> to see if this implementation is a convenient way of doing unit tests. Maybe
> we could write a library mixing unit and benchmarks tests ? ( something
> similar to Doug Bagley's one ). Theses two should stick well together.
>

My preference would be to be able to compile the library *without* the 
unit testing code in it.  This will require some thought, and probably 
some makefile hacking.

Brian