Re: how to create fixtures in unit test framework

From: Dan Muller (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-28 12:49:22

In article <bikh3v$i6j$1_at_[hidden]>, yg-boost-users_at_[hidden] 
says...
> Hi all. The boost unit test framework seems to lack the xUnit
> buildUp/tearDown (whatever) methods meant to faciliate the creation of
> fixtures. Does that mean there is an alternative idiom to achieve the same
> effect ? Constructing new class-test-cases for each test seems a bit
> overkill.
> 

If I understand what buildUp and tearDown do, then the answer is "local 
variables". I'm not (yet) familiar with boost's unit test framework, but 
I have my own framework that I built based on a design description on 
Ward's Wiki Robert DiFalco. One quibble I had with Robert's design was 
the (late) inclusion of fixtures, which seemed entirely unnecessary in 
C++. (I'm a little uncertain of why they would be necessary in JUnit, 
where they apparently come from, but I don't have programming experience 
with Java.)

See <http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?CppUtxOverview>. Near the bottom of the 
page are my comments about test fixtures.

-- 
Dan Muller
"So that's what an invisible barrier looks like!" (Time Bandits)