Dear Edward, Many thanks for your prompt response! Edward Z. Yang (2017/10/30 11:25 -0400):
Actually, it's the reverse of what you said: like OCaml, GHC essentially has ~no unit tests; it's entirely Haskell programs which we compile (and sometimes run; a lot of tests are for the typechecker only so we don't bother running those.) The .T file is just a way of letting the Python driver know what tests exist.
Oh okay! Would you be able to point me to just a few tests to get an idea of a few typical situations, please? One other question I forgot to ask: how do you deal with conditional tests? For instance, if a test should be run only on some platforms? Or, in OCaml we have tests for Fortran bindings that should be run only if a Fortran compiler is available. How would you deal with such tests? Thanks! Sébastien.