Re: [boost] Boost.Test updates in trunk: need for (mini) review?

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Test updates in trunk: need for (mini) review?
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-29 06:50:05

On 20-10-2012 05:03, Gennadiy Rozenal wrote:

>
> IX. Number of smaller improvements:
>
> * Notion of framework shutdown. Allows to eliminate some fake memory leaks
> * Added checkpoints at fixture entry points, test case entry point and test case
> exit point for auto registered test cases
> * New FPE portable interfaces introduced and FPE handling is separated from
> system errors handling. You can detect FPE even if catch_system_error is false
> * Added an ability to erase registered exception translator
> * execution_monitor: new interface vexecute - to be used to monitor nullary
> functions with no result values
> * test_tree_visitor interface extended to facilitate visitors applying the same
> action to all test units
> * execution_monitor use typeid to report "real" exception type if possible.
> * New ability to redirect leaks report into a file

That seems like a lot of nice improvements. However, there is one thing 
that could save a lot of time for us, and that's the ability to
run a specific test as the first one.

Is that hard to add?

kind regards

Thorsten