Re: [Cppunit-devel] Parameterizing tests by using XML

[Robert W. <ro...@po...>]

On Friday 19 July 2002 09:19, Michel Armin wrote:
> Actually almost all of my tests would benifit from such a
> parameterized testing approach. (Most of our code is concerned with
> manipulating images. Of course, we support a number of different
> types of images. Our functions should be able to deal with all of
> these types of images in a transparent way. If I have a possibility
> to parameterize the type of the image used for a test, I could
> greatly improve the test coverage.)

Wouldn't a template be more helpful?
Or a (abstract) base class that excercises test for all images and is 
not directly called but its derived classes call it and offer 
specialised methods the base calls (template class pattern)?

Robert