Re: [Wavepacket-ng-devel] task #4 - evaluating some unit testing and mocking frameworks

[Piotr B. <dms...@gm...>]

@Ulf : I tried to attach an example program to ticket but it seems not to
work. I can't see the posted attachment.

2013/1/10 Piotr Bienkiewicz <dms...@gm...>

> Following the suggestion i will try to describe some relevant features of
> the CxxTest framework:
>
> 1. Minimal amount of work needed to add new tests
>
> Creating new test cases with CxxTest turns out pretty easy and requires
> minimal programming effort.
> No manual registration of test cases or use of some ugly macros is needed.
> CxxTest gets around that by parsing test cases and generating a C++ test
> runner.
> The build process looks like the following:
> 1. Tests are defined in C++ header files
> 2. The "cxxtestgen" command line tool processes header files to generate
> files for the test runner.
> 3. Finally, the test runner can be compiled and executed to run all test
> suites.
>
> 3. Supports fixtures.
>
> Great support. A wide range of functions available:
> - setup/teardown for individual tests
> - setup/teardown for the whole test suite
> - world(global) fixtures
>
> 4. Handles exceptions and crashes well
>
> Very good. Again, a rich set of functions is available to check if certain
> exceptions were thrown.
> No support for dealing with C++ signals found yet.
> I have not found on this topic in the documentation or during google
> search.
> Maybe we'll find more info in CxxTest forum. I have already asked for some
> hint - https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/cxxtest-forum
>
> 5. Supports different outputs
>
> Good support. In addition to the standard output, the test results can be
> stored in XML format.
>
> Another plus - CxxTest supports testing with mock objects which i will
> study in next step.
> Last but not least i have attached an example test suite to the Ticket.
>
> Piotr
>
> 2013/1/7 Ulf Lorenz <ul...@wa...>
>
>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:37:51 +0100
>> Piotr Bienkiewicz <dms...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> > After some search I've found a couple of valuable frameworks.
>> > An interesting comparison can be found here:
>> >
>> http://gamesfromwithin.com/exploring-the-c-unit-testing-framework-jungle.
>>
>> Nice, and pretty much what I was thinking of, though a little outdated,
>> and some things like his portability concerns are not relevant for us.
>> After having looked around for the tensor stuff, I would suggest that
>> you rank the libraries (and maybe more if you find them, e.g.,
>> googletest) using the criteria 1,3,4,(5), throw out strange projects
>> (bad documentation, arcane installation, inactive projects), and try
>> out the best, say, 4 candidates. To keep the amount of work in a
>> reasonable frame.
>>
>>
>> This mail also reminds me of a ping that I wanted to write: If you get a
>> task, could you always acknowledge it in some way (assigning the task
>> to yourself, mailing a short ok or something), just to give me the
>> feeling something is happening. :)
>>
>>
>> Ulf
>>
>>
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