Re: [boost] [test] integration with debugger

From: Neil Groves (neil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-09 13:43:53

Thorsten,

I have been looking into this a little more and have discovered that there
is also a --auto_start_dbg option. That might do exactly what you asked for.

Neil Groves

-----Original Message-----
From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]
On Behalf Of Thorsten Ottosen
Sent: 09 December 2007 16:40
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] [test] integration with debugger

Neil Groves skrev:
> Hi Thorsten,
> 
> I normally place soft breakpoint in the code that announces the test
failure
> and walk the call stack.

You are compiling directly with visual studio then?

I'm usign bjam + slickedit as my enviroenment.

> Alternatively you can use the IsDebuggerPresent() call combined with
> DebugBreak as a Windows only modification to the assertions. This only
> causes a debug break if a developer has attached a local debugger. The
> automated unit test execution is unaffected.

I would prefer if the the unit-test itself could be debugged. The 
unite-test makes no sense if there is a serious assertion triggering 
somewhere.

> I'm a bit annoyed that I don't break into the debugger, when an 
> assertion triggers.

When I write a normal program, it crashes and allows me to debug 
it...with boost.test, the behavior has been modified somehow.

-Thorsten
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