Re: [boost] Test Tool Proposal (test_tools.hpp)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-04 03:06:39

Rozental, Gennadiy wrote:
>>I've a similiar problem with BOOST_CHECK family, but I think 
>>the solution
>>can be different: provide a means to convert failed test into 
>>assertion
>>failure. This way I can conveniently debug. Currently, I have to
>>replace BOOST_CHECK with assert manually, to find where the 
>>failure happened.
>>Gennadiy, what do you think?
>>
>>- Volodya
> 
> 
>   I do not understand exactly how switching to assert would help you locate
> the failure point. If you going to run it under debugger you as well could
> just set a break point on failed assertion. If you going to analize the core
> using debugger, why not run it under debugger in a first place. If you
> expect to get a location from the assert output - it will be not better than
> test tools one.

The situation is that I have a consice description of test cases (a vector of
C structures) and a function which iterates over that vector, doing 
BOOST_CHECK in some places. If I place a breakpoint on the failed BOOST_CHECK,
then that breakpoint will trigger many times before the actual error happens.

- Volodya