Re: [boost] [Test] Way to tell if a test has failed?

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-30 14:56:36

Jens Seidel <jensseidel <at> users.sf.net> writes:

> 
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:03:41AM -0000, John Maddock wrote:
> > Is there a way to check if the last BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE passed or failed?
> > 
> > I need to print out some additional information if it failed so I can 
track 
> > down which test case it was (the checks are in a loop that iterates over a 
> > table of data).
> 
> In this case you should probably change the test. To be honest I have
> the same problem that I need something similar to
> BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL_COLLECTIONS which checks a range and creates
> compressed output. I tried using custom predicate support
> 
(http://www.boost.org/libs/test/doc/components/test_tools/custom_predicate_supp
ort.html)
> but it is complicated ...

What problems do you have? Don;t use the page above. Try one unser 
http://www.patmedia.net/~rogeeff/html/ and let me know if you still having 
problems (or docs are not clear enough).

 
> Using BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE in a loop sounds just wrong to me.

Hmm. What specifically is wrong with it?

Gennadiy