Proposal for built in tests.

[Robert T. Short]

In a recent email exchange John suggested that it would be nice for 
someone to move tests from the test directory to the files that the 
tests are being tested.

I have started to do this, but would like to make a proposal.  There are 
pros and cons, so it isn't clear that my approach is any better but it 
does simplify some aspects of creating tests.

The problem:

Including tests in .cc files will cause those files and everything that 
depends on them to be made.  This can take a really long time.

The proposal.

For .cc (and other compiled files), why not create a file with the same 
base but with a .test extension?  Thus ov-class.cc will have a file 
called ov-class.test that contains the tests.



If this seems like a good idea, I will make the necessary changes to 
fntest.m.  Since there are already embedded tests I won't break that.  
If this isn't a good idea, I will forget about it.


Bob