Re: [boost] unittest

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-14 19:08:42

At 08:00 PM 5/14/2001, John (EBo) David wrote:

 >I just started playing with Koethe's unittest and was unable to compile
 >out of the box on SuSE Linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4.0), g++ 2.95.2.   I was
 >able to get catch_exceptions.hpp to compile by adding "#define
 >__USE_UNIX98" just before "#include <signal.h>".  The problem appears to
 >be that sigset and sigrelse are not part of the new POSIX (though I
 >could be wrong there).  In any event, adding "__USE_UNIX98" fixed the
 >problem.  Another simple problem was that cout was not properly resolved
 >in catch_exceptions.hpp because namespace std was never used.  So on 85
 >I changed cout to std::cout.
 >
 >g++ also complained that "`class boost::detail::test_case' has virtual
 >functions but non-virtual destructor", so I added "virtual ~test_case ()
 >{}" to unit_test.hpp.
 >
 >In addition there were a number of warnings with comparing
 >testcases_.size() (an unsigned value) with the loop variable i (signed
 >int) on lines 277 and 295 of catch_exceptions.hpp.
 >
 >hope this helps...

Yes, for sure.  (catch_exceptions.hpp is my responsibility.)

 >Other than these trivialities unittest looks GREAT!  Thanks Dr. Koethe.

Yes, I'm really hopeful it will lead to Boost having a complete testing 
solution which covers from very simple needs right on up to a full unit 
test framework.

--Beman