[Cppunit-devel] cross platform TestPlugIn

[Allen U. <All...@ve...>]

Currently we are using an older version of cppunit and I created a
dynamically loadable TestSuite which is similar to the TestPlugInInterface.

Our use model is this; A long TestRunner process which loads the test
dll/so, get the suite, run the tests, free the suite and then unload the
test dll/so. This allows you to then re-compile/link the test dll and run
the tests again without having to restart the TestRunner. There were issues
with allocating/de-allocating memory between lib boundaries so my
TestLibrary interface was basically like this.

virtual CppUnit::TestSuite* GetSuite(void);
virtual void FreeSuite(CppUnit::TestSuite* pTests);

I'm in the process of updating to the latest version cppunit in cvs. I
noticed that are TestPlugIn's but at this point it seems like it only
supports Win32. Has anyone worked on supporting this across the rest of the
unix platforms? I also didn't see where the CppUnit::Test* would be cleaned
up. If I remember correctly there were issues with the TestRunner and
TestResult classes where they would try to free the Test classes, I had to
make some changes in this area also.

I would like to be able to use cppunit 'out of the box' as opposed to
maintain our own modified version. We need to the same level of support on
the 5 platforms listed below.

Windows i386/ia64/x86-64 / MS 2003 DDK
Linux / GCC 3.x / STLport 4.5.3
Solaris (7,8,9) / Sun Workshop 6.2 / STLport 4.5.3
HP-UX / aCC A.03.30 / STLport 4.5.0
AIX / Visual Age C++ 6.0 / STLport 4.5.3

We can offer some resources to get this completed I just didn't want to step
on anyone toes or duplicate any effort. Who is coordinating the next (2.0?)
cppunit release? What are the release criteria?

-allen