Re: [Boost-users] [unittest] How to only ignore child terminate?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [unittest] How to only ignore child terminate?
From: Richard (legalize+jeeves_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-26 15:48:13

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boost-users_at_[hidden] spake the secret code
<875837.92076.qm_at_[hidden]> thusly:

>How can I only ignore child.terminate() while running unittests?

Decouple the code from the concrete behavior of this function and use
a test double in testing scenarios.

One way to do this would be to extract the text that calls
child.terminate() into its own virtual method and override that method
in testing.
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