Re: [boost] Boost.Tests: Unit test defines own main() function, why?

From: Jens Seidel (jensseidel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-15 10:58:07

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:11:09PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:51:40AM -0500, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> > Let's  see concrete examples.
> 
> Old code was as simple as:
> 
> #include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
> using boost::unit_test::test_suite;
> 
> test_suite* Jacobi_test_suite();
> 
> test_suite* init_unit_test_suite(int, char *[])
> {
>   Initialize_logging();
>   test_suite *test = BOOST_TEST_SUITE("Master test suite");
>   test->add(Jacobi_test_suite());
>   return test;
> }
> 
> > >> > prefer to define main youself and invoke init function you can do it as 
> > >> > well
> > >> > with shared library variant.
> > >
> > > And how?
> > 
> > See example 9 on
> > 
> > http://www.patmedia.net/~rogeeff/html/utf/user-guide/test-organization/manual-nullary-test-case.html
> 
> Right. Thanks! Just changing 
> 
> test_suite* init_unit_test_suite(int, char *[])
> {
>   Initialize_logging();
>   test_suite *test = BOOST_TEST_SUITE("Master test suite");
>   test->add(Jacobi_test_suite());
>   return test;
> }
> 
> into
> 
> bool init_unit_test()
> {
>   Initialize_logging();
>   boost::unit_test::framework::master_test_suite().add(Jacobi_test_suite());
> 
>   return true;
> }
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   return ::boost::unit_test::unit_test_main(&init_unit_test, argc, argv);
> }
> 
> works. Please note that one has to read dozens of pages before as this
> is nearly at the end of the documentation.

But it does not work with Boost 1.33.1 in contrast to 1.34.1 as
master_test_suite() returns a const reference.

I switched now to inclusion of boost/test/included/unit_test_framework.hpp
instead of using libraries. Let's see whether it will break soon as well ...
 
Jens