Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?

Subject: Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?
From: Timo H. Geusch (timo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-17 18:16:14

On 17.09.2012 10:34, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> Timo H. Geusch <timo <at> unix-consult.com> writes:
>
>> I agree that this is a massive problem - I've been using Boost.Test 
>> for
>> quite a while and the team I work in uses it for testing of our
>> project's code, but I didn't know that half these features were
>> available.
>
> What exactly is massive problem? There are number of new features in 
> a trunk
> (not in a release). Do you miss any features or your teammates use 
> them and you
> do not see documentation for it?

It more that the discoverability of the new features isn't that great. 
What we figured out about the test framework mainly came from 
experimentation and ample use of Google. I should probably have a look 
at the docs in trunk, it sounds like they are better and it sounds like 
there are more features that might come in handy in the future.

Don't get me wrong, I like Boost.Test and it works well for us, but I 
don't think it's that easy to use its full power unless you happen to 
work with someone who knows the framework really well.