Re: how to create fixtures in unit test framework

From: Gennadiy E. Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-28 21:36:01

--- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], "Anders Moe" <yg-boost-
users_at_m...> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anders.

No. At the moment there is no explicit notion of buildUp and TearDown 
methods. In in my list of things to consider. I am not sure we really 
need that. Could you provide an example of what and when should be 
done inside these function. If you just need a place to initialize 
set of test cases that share some data, you could at the moment use 
user test class based test cases. You create and initialize single 
instanse of test class and test cases are methods of that class. The 
instance will be shared and destroyed when testing is done.

HTH,

Gennadiy.