[Boost-build] Dependant test (Re: Future development)

From: Kevin Wheatley (hxpro_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-08 06:36:50

Larry Evans wrote:
> On 10/07/07 20:55, David Abrahams wrote:
>> I'm not aware of any Boost library that actually creates such
>> dependencies among its tests, are you?
> 
> I know of no such tests.

Whilst not in Boost, I do a lot of tests that require specific
hardware be present in a machine, not actually running functional
tests on machines that do not have the hardware is quite useful.

I say functional tests because I obviously use a mock/stub for the
unit tests where possible. The alternative for me is to repeat the
hardware detection across a range of tests, this gets harder to
implement as I do larger integration/functional tests.

In these cases its nice to be able to say the opposite too, 'Run this
test if the previous one failed' for instance to test fail over type
tests.

Kevin
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