Add capability to run tests in a non-active project

[Former user]

(logging this down after a discussion with Stefan on Hangouts)

If would be great if Test Insight could constantly run test suite project while I'm working on the main application.

I have a project group with two project - MyMainApp - MyMainAppTests

The former contains the program and the latter contains the unit tests.

At the moment, I have to switch to the Tests app to verify if my tests run correctly after a change in the code. I'd like to stay in the main app and Test Insight should recompile my Tests up, run the tests (if program compiles) and dislay the results.

[Lübbe Onken]

Great suggestion. That is my standard configuration too.

[Nicholas Ring]

I do like this idea also but my concern is to how to get TI to find the unit test project. At work, I am like the others here, I have "<project>.dpr" and "<project>Test.dpr" but at home, the "<project>Test.dpr" is in a sub-directory.

I (and surely others) would hate to be dictated to on where the "<project>Test.dpr" has to be, so what is a generic way that the main project can inform TI where the "<project>Test.dpr" is?

I do have several ideas but there are cons about them all... :-(

[Stefan Glienke]

What comes into mind for me is adding a node into the groupproj that specifies the TI project. What are the cons about that approach?

[Nicholas Ring]

That approach is more a concern - will the IDE respect that node, in that will it leave it alone?

[Stefan Glienke]

Yes, it will, other tools are doing that as well

[Nicholas Ring]

I know that Eureka Log places a big comment with their setting at the end but I didn't know about other tools using it also.

Off Topic: Are you able to mention some of those tools?

[Stefan Glienke]

ability to specify a project as TestInsight project inside a project group (fixes issue #43)

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