Re: [Boost-users] [boost][test] - BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE, BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE clarification

From: Ed Johnson (ed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-08 17:15:16

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>> BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE is a macro. I am not sure what you are trying to 
>>> do
>>> by declaring it a friend?
>> I want to be able to test private members of my classes while using the
>> Auto Test framework. I won't test private data that often, so it's not
>> that big a deal to use the BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE for those occasions.
> 
> Let me repeat. *BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE is a macro*.  Declaring it as a 
> friend doesn't help you in any way.
> 
> Gennadiy 

I'm comfortable with the fact that BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE will not work 
with friend.

  However, isn't BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE also a macro? We both agreed in 
this thread that BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE worked as a friend function, right?