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About Catch2

Catch2 is mainly a unit testing framework for C++, but it also provides basic micro-benchmarking features and simple BDD macros. Catch2's main advantage is that using it is both simple and natural. Test names do not have to be valid identifiers, assertions look like normal C++ boolean expressions, and sections provide a nice and local way to share set-up and tear-down code in tests. You are on the devel branch, where the v3 version is being developed. v3 brings a bunch of significant changes, the big one being that Catch2 is no longer a single-header library. Catch2 now behaves as a normal library, with multiple headers and separately compiled implementation. Quick and easy to get started. Just download two files, add them to your project and you're away. No external dependencies. As long as you can compile C++14 and have the C++ standard library available. Write test cases as, self-registering, functions (or methods, if you prefer).

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