Re: [boost] [test] Using boost.test for GUI testing?

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-14 13:26:16

Markus Schöpflin <markus.schoepflin <at> comsoft.de> writes:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> did anybody ever use boost.test to test the UI behavior of classes, like 
> for example instantiating a class implementing a dialog, sending some 
> events to the resulting object, and checking that the object has the 
> expected state.

It would be interresting to create some kind of extension to Boost.Test for 
GUI testing. 
 
> AFAICT this would require to somehow integrate the main event loop of the 
> respective GUI framework with the main loop of boost test, but I'm at a 
> loss how this could be accomplished.

Use DLL version of the Boost.Test and you can implement your own main and 
invoke Boost.Test runner from it.

Gennadiy