Re: [Boost-users] [test] Crash when running my unit tests

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [test] Crash when running my unit tests
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-30 14:33:09

AMDG

Christian Henning wrote:
> Thanks Ovanes for your quick reply. The only global variables I'm
> using in my test suite are in some strings representing paths and
> filenames. I have removed them to see if that changes anything but it
> doesn't. Same problem as before.
>
> The problem seems to be with tiff_test.cpp. When excluding it from the
> test suite all works. Including it generates the crash.
>
> One more thing regarding my test suite. I'm testing various image
> formats, like bmp, png, etc, and each format basically runs through
> similar tests. To avoid name collisions I use namespaces for each
> format. Each of those namespaces contain tests with the same name,
> like this:
>
> bmp_test.cpp:
> namespace bmp_test {
> BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( read_image_test ) {}
> }
>
> png_test.cpp:
> namespace png_test {
> BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( read_image_test ) {}
> }
>
> I hope such use case is fine with boost::test.
>   

It probably isn't.  Boost.Test uses the name as an identifier to select the
tests to run and it doesn't know about namespaces.  It ought
to work if you put the tests in different test suites.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe