Re: [boost] Serious fix needed for the new Boost.Test

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-22 10:44:18

> I've been trying out the auto-test items in Boost.Test, re-doing them when
> the recent changes were uploaded to CVS.  I decided to template-ize a test
> case I had, going from BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE to 
> BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE
> with a MPL list of the types I wanted.  The complier spit out 10 errors. 
> (I
> think that's a lot, but for some posters here that's a little.)  After 
> using
> the preprocessor to copy & paste the expansion of
> BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE directly into my test file, I narrowed down
> the errors to two actual problems:
>
> 1.  The compiler never heard of boost::type
> 2.  And it never heard of boost::unit_test::ut_detail::
>    template_test_case_gen
>
> These can be found in the <boost/type.hpp> (after 10 minutes of searching)
> and <boost/test/test_case_template.hpp> (after 30 minutes of searching)
> headers, respectively.  Directly #including them in my test file got my
> testing to work.
>
> The simple solution is to make sure to _directly_ include the headers for
> the items you need to compile....
>
> [Does some checking of the auto-test examples.]
>
> The example for BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE shows that
> <boost/test/test_case_template.hpp> needs to be manually #included.  This 
> is

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE does require to be manually included. I've 
decided to follow "Don't pay for something you are not using" principle. If 
there is a general consensus I could include this header into unit_test.hpp.

boost/type.hpp is included in boost/test/test_case_template.hpp, so you 
shouldn't have any problems.

Gennadiy