Re: how to create fixtures in unit test framework

From: Gennadiy E. Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-29 19:47:01

--- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], "Duane Murphy" <duanemurphy_at_m...> 
wrote:
> --- At Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:02:51 +0200, Anders Moe wrote:
> 
> >Hi again and thanks for your reply.
> >
> >
> >If I understand you correctly you suggest using the ctor/dtor in 
the
> >class-test-case to do the job of build_up/tear_down. I suppose 
that would be
> >equivalent to setup/teardown. This works, ofcourse,  because a C++
> >programmer can rely on the dtor being executed, unlike the Java 
finalizer.
> 
> Having worked some with CppUnit, I have wondered similarly. 

Did you try to use Boost.Test? Any comparison?

> It's hard to
> judge when a particular "feature" is put in to work around 
limitations or
> differences in the language. When I studied JUnit, I didnt fully 
grasp
> the need for setUp and tearDown. This explaination makes some 
sense. 

Do you mean, that in C++ we do not need explicit teardown and buildup?

> The
> equivalent is simply member variables or something similar in C++.

I did not get this. An equivalent to what?

> 
>  ...Duane

Gennadiy.