[Boost-users] Re: Boost Test - catching assertions, marking them as a success?

From: Kevin Wheatley (hxpro_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-08 03:22:48

Kevin Wheatley wrote:
> Unfortunately, this works for my code but not for 3rd party libraries
> (brain dead though they may be :-) I was thinking of a
> THROWING_ASSERT() or somthing which would do just as you suggested for
> our code. I just felt it would be good to test the 3rd party in the
> same way as our own code.

So ignoring the 3rd party code for now I've decided to implement
something using BOOST_ASSERT() and BOOST_ENABLE_ASSERT_HANDLER, then
having assertion_failed() throw the exception. The test code then
expects the throw and the developers are happy (no errors :-)

Thanks

Kevin

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