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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [test] Crash when running my unit tests
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-08 04:30:05

Christian Henning <chhenning <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 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.

No. I do not think so. You need to create actual test suites (they include the
namespace as well)

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE( bmp_test )

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( read_image_test ) {}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()

If you still see the issue please post simple example. You are using trunk
version, right?