[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #13082: Add a way to identify the executable as a boost-test

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #13082: Add a way to identify the executable as a boost-test
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-19 08:39:36

#13082: Add a way to identify the executable as a boost-test
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 Reporter:  jan.wilmans@…                    |      Owner:  rogeeff
     Type:  Feature Requests                 |     Status:  new
Milestone:  To Be Determined                 |  Component:  test
  Version:  Boost 1.64.0                     |   Severity:  Problem
 Keywords:  test identification test-runner  |
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 I propose to standardise a command-line option to identify the executable
 as a certain kind of test:
 I will propose this to boost.test and google.test as well.
 My personal usecase is the identification of tests for
 BoostTestUi (the name is somewhat misleading, it is a test-runner for
 google-, boost-, catch- and nunit- tests, see github/BoostTestUi.)

 Currently this requires re-compilation of the test with a special header,
 I would like to prevent the need for that.

 --test-runner-identification
 framework: boost.test
 version: x.x

 --test-runner-identification
 framework: google.test
 version: x.x

 --test-runner-identification
 framework: catch.test
 version: x.x

 This will allow test-runners to identify the test-framework used to build
 the test.
 That way the test-runners can know what command-line parameters are
 available to do things like:
 - list all the tests
 - run specific tests

 finally, to let the user attach a debugger to the test this kind of code
 could added in the main():
 (for catch that may already exist, I did not check)

 notice that this option can have any name, we need only 1 standardised
 option --test-runner-identification, because once we know what we're
 dealing with, we can just use the respective command-line options.

   if (arg == "--gui-wait")
   {
       std::cout << "#waiting" << std::endl;
       std::getchar();
   }

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac10/boost/ticket/13082>
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