[Cppunit-devel] fixture between different test methods?

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Hi cppunit developers and users!

I have a question about test execution. I have a test suit as shown
below with two test methods. The code is then compiled into a dll
and I run it with this command:

DllPlugInTesterd_dll.exe -c plugin_d.dll

I now have the following problem. During startup cppunit creates two
instances of the ExampleTest class. Then it calls setup(), sampleTest()
and finally teardown(). Then it does the same on the second instance 
with the method sampleTest2().

This looks quite strange. I thought I could initialize some class in the
setup method which is then shared between all the different test method
calls?

The reason why I would like to share an instance between them is that I
have to start an external program during test execution (which takes
very long and therefore should not be started and killed for each test
method invocation). I therefore used a shared pointer which I thought
would be accessible for all test invocations. But since each invocation
uses a different instance this does not work.

Any suggestions how this should be done would be really great!

Please also tell me if what I wrote / want is unclear

Thanks a lot, Fabian



class ExampleTest : public CPPUNIT_NS::TestFixture
{
  CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE( ExampleTest );
  CPPUNIT_TEST( sampleTest );
  CPPUNIT_TEST( sampleTest2 );
  CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_END();

public:
  void setUp();
  void tearDown();

  // The different test methods
  void sampleTest();  
  void sampleTest2();  
};