On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 14:13 +0000, Ben Albrecht wrote:
> Hi Russel,
> 
> 
> Mason test functionality is in the Mason roadmap[1]. However, as
> Brian notes, we currently do not have a user-facing test framework,
> so that is somewhat of a prerequisite to mason test functionality.

Excellent.
> 
> Demand for a test framework has ramped up significantly over the past
> few months, so I hope to see a language-provided solution prioritized
> soon. As Brian has mentioned, many users currently use Chapel's
> internal test framework, which is documented in the developer
> documentation[2], and also the more recent community-developed
> Charcoal library. I have not personally had any experience with
> Charcoal yet, but I am supportive of the effort.

I will have to admit I have still not properly tried the Chapel
implementation test framework. I just did a minimal implementation for
doing some example-based testing. I'll give Charcoal a whirl and report
in as issues there.
 
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