AMDG On 03/22/2011 11:52 PM, Stirling Westrup wrote:
I have been using Boost.test to run some simple unit tests as I build my code. I've come across a case where I need to test if my code runs within an acceptable time limit. I know that the execution monitor has a timeout system for testing that sort of thing, but I can't figure out how it is supposed to be integrated into the unit test framework.
Well, you can just use boost::execution_monitor. There's nothing incompatible between it and the Unit Test Framework. Unfortunately, as the documentation notes: unit_test::readwrite_property<int> p_timeout; // Specifies the seconds that elapse before a timer_error occurs. May be ignored on some platforms. I tried the following on both Linux and Windows, and it didn't work on Windows. #include <boost/test/included/execution_monitor.hpp> #define BOOST_TEST_MAIN #include <boost/test/included/unit_test.hpp> int f() { for(;;); } BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_timeout) { boost::execution_monitor monitor; monitor.p_timeout.set(5); monitor.execute(&f); }
Ideally, I'd love to just have a BOOST_CHECK_TIMED( f(), timeout) that I could invoke to ensure that the code returns true, and returns within the specified timeout interval.
In Christ, Steven Watanabe