* * * * *

  So I wonder—are there unit tests for the various unit test frameworks out
                         there? How are they tested?

Still writing tests [1]. I added checks to see if something that's not
supposed to happen didn't happen [2] and I'm only running it over the tests
that may actually do the thing that's not supposed to happen (3,456 tests).
Doing so adds three seconds of overhead to each test … multiply … carry the
one … and hey! Only three hours to run this test run! And oh look! It found
something that wasn't supposed to happen did happen!

It's going to be fun reporting at the next meeting that running the full
regression test will now take over 13 hours. I'm thinking I'll be tasked with
coming up with a different approach to the regression test.

Remember kids! Tests are more important than the program! Testing! _Über
alles_!

Update on Wednesday, June 9^th, 2021

Hmmm … it took 259 minutes, 57.5 seconds (4 hours, 20 minutes) to run through
the 3,456 tests, so each test took around 4½ seconds, not 3 seconds. Things
aren't looking so good for this regression test …


[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2021/06/02.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2021/06/07.3

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