Re: Re: how to create fixtures in unit test framework

From: Anders Moe (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-01 08:51:13

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:27:28 -0600 (MDT), Dave Gomboc <dave_at_[hidden]> 
wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Anders Moe wrote:
>
>> Having given some thought to this during the weekend I have also 
>> realized a significant difference between ctor/dtor and setup/teardown, 
>> as was posted in another subthread of this thread, namely this :
>>
>> 1) the ctor(s) is called at test _setup_ time, while the setup(s) is 
>> called at test _runtime_
>> 2) the dtor(s) is called at test suite exit time, while the teardown(s) 
>> is called, again, at test runtime.
>
> I may just be missing something, I've been up all night :-), but it's not
> obvious to me why one cannot accomplish setup/teardown by appropriate use
> of RAII.  Could someone post a concrete example?
>
If you mean RAII in each test method that is somewhat laborious and error 
prone - the nice
thing about overloading setup/teardown is that the framework does the 
calling. If you mean the ctor/dtor version of setup/teardown I was hoping 
my previous post would provide
some arguments.

Anders.