[Boost-users] Boost.test applicability

Subject: [Boost-users] Boost.test applicability
From: Joel Falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-30 05:24:18

I have a alrge number of numeric functions (~300) overloaded on various 
types. What I want to do is having some automated test that check if 
those functions returns proper values and behave correctly in term of 
precision. I get a look at Boost.Test but i can't really see if it's 
applicable to my need and, if it is, how exactly am I supposed to 
generate that much test and cover all cases (random value testing, 
singular value test, nan/inf handling etc...).

My first idea was to use Boost.preprcoessor file iteration to quickly 
generate
 BOOST_TEST_CASE functions but I'm not sure this is a scalable practice.

Other point, I saw that there is check in Boost.test which check for an 
arbitrary precision result. However it uses raw value (like 0.001) where 
having a check based on ULP or RMS maybe better. Is there anyway to 
integrate those test using existing test framework ?

Thanks in advance