Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Test] What's the best way to make custom assertions?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Test] What's the best way to make custom assertions?
From: Richard (legalize+jeeves_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-23 16:47:20

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<loom.20121023T224235-110_at_[hidden]> thusly:

>Vicente J. Botet Escriba <vicente.botet <at> wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
>> Would this works as well?
>> void check_op1()
>> {
>>      BOOST_REQUIRE( expr );
>> }
>> BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( t1 )
>> {
>>   BOOST_TEST_CONTEXT( "
>>     Testing invoked from: " << __FILE__ << "(" << __LINE__ << ")" );
>>   check_op1( );
>> }
>
>Yes. It will, but in my case this statement needs to be written once.

What I'm proposing wouldn't require even this one statement to be written
and reuses the existing mechanisms in Boost.Test instead of burdening the
author/user of a custom assertion with even more code that they have to
write.
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