Re: [Boost-users] [Test] Did This Pass, Or Didn't it?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Test] Did This Pass, Or Didn't it?
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-15 06:26:36

Le 15/07/15 04:47, Merrill Cornish a écrit :
> Here is the Boost Test assertion:
>
> BOOST_CHECK_EXCEPTION(dummyOpr->setOperand(emptyValue), DiGSE::fail,
> fail_msg);
>
> Here is the test execution log message:
>
> info: check 'incorrect exception DiGSE::fail is caught' has passed
>
> I have only one exception: *DiGSE::fail* (derived from
> *std::exception*). It is the /only /exception that appears in the
> *BOOST_CHECK_EXCEPTION()* assertions.  So, what does "incorrect
> exception *DiGSE::fail*" mean?  If *DiGSE::fail* was caught, then that
> part is correct.  If the message means that some /other/ exception was
> caught, then this is a Really Poor way of phrasing that information.
>
> Or, did the predicate return *false* (which, in my case, means the
> exception message is wrong)?
>
> But if the wrong exception was caught /or/ the predicate returned
> *false*, then why was the assertion declared "has passed"?
>
> Merrill Cornish

Hi,

We will rephrase that in a better way. Would you mind creating a ticket 
for the boost.test component (so that we do not forget to address it)?

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost

Thanks,
Raffi