[CMake] Fwd: generating CTest tests

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Alex H<aditya15417 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> My problem is actually really simple I have a .cpp file and the program just
> basically take an int as an argument, if the argument is from certain
> numbers it returns a 1 otherwise 0.
> Now I need to create a unit test that would allow me to do this... how can I
> check the return value of the program? The add_test command just adds the
> test to be performed using a
> specific argument but it never tests the output...

CMake automatically does this for you when you build the RUN_TESTS
target on Visual Studio or do a make test on other systems

Here is an example of the output of RUN_TESTS under visual studio 2005
for the project I posted the CMakeLists.txt


1>Performing Post-Build Event...
1>Start processing tests
1>Test project X:/32Bit/VC.80/Qt/QtBasicUtils
1>  1/ 48 Testing FileCMD0 .....................   Passed    0.55 sec
1>  2/ 48 Testing FileCMD1 .....................   Passed    1.58 sec
1>  3/ 48 Testing Test0 ........................   Passed    0.17 sec
1>  4/ 48 Testing Test1 ........................   Passed    0.16 sec
1>  5/ 48 Testing StringListArg0 ...............   Passed    0.06 sec
1>  6/ 48 Testing StringListArg1 ...............   Passed    0.06 sec
1>  7/ 48 Testing StringListOpt0 ...............   Passed    0.16 sec
1>  8/ 48 Testing StringListOpt1 ...............   Passed    0.06 sec
1>  9/ 48 Testing BoolOpt1 .....................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 10/ 48 Testing BoolOpt2 .....................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 11/ 48 Testing ExtBoolOpt1 ..................   Passed    0.25 sec
1> 12/ 48 Testing ExtBoolOpt2 ..................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 13/ 48 Testing ExtBoolOpt3 ..................   Passed    0.06 sec
1> 14/ 48 Testing ExtBoolOpt4 ..................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 15/ 48 Testing ExtBoolOpt5 ..................   Passed    0.17 sec
1> 16/ 48 Testing FloatArgs0 ...................   Passed    0.19 sec
1> 17/ 48 Testing FloatArgs1 ...................   Passed    0.06 sec
1> 18/ 48 Testing FloatArgs2 ...................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 19/ 48 Testing FloatArgs3 ...................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 20/ 48 Testing FloatArgs4 ...................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 21/ 48 Testing FloatArgs5 ...................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 22/ 48 Testing FloatArgs6 ...................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 23/ 48 Testing FloatArgs7 ...................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 24/ 48 Testing FloatArgs8 ...................   Passed    1.30 sec
1> 25/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs0 ..................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 26/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs1 ..................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 27/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs2 ..................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 28/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs3 ..................   Passed    0.19 sec
1> 29/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs4 ..................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 30/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs5 ..................   Passed    0.06 sec
1> 31/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs6 ..................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 32/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs7 ..................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 33/ 48 Testing DoubleArgs8 ..................   Passed    2.03 sec
1> 34/ 48 Testing XMLExport0 ...................   Passed    0.17 sec
1> 35/ 48 Testing XMLExport1 ...................   Passed    0.17 sec
1> 36/ 48 Testing XMLExport2 ...................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 37/ 48 Testing XMLExport3 ...................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 38/ 48 Testing XMLExport4 ...................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 39/ 48 Testing XMLExport5 ...................   Passed    0.17 sec
1> 40/ 48 Testing XMLExport6 ...................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 41/ 48 Testing UserProp0 ....................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 42/ 48 Testing UserProp1 ....................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 43/ 48 Testing UserProp2 ....................   Passed    0.06 sec
1> 44/ 48 Testing UserProp3 ....................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 45/ 48 Testing UserProp4 ....................   Passed    0.16 sec
1> 46/ 48 Testing UserProp5 ....................   Passed    0.14 sec
1> 47/ 48 Testing UserProp6 ....................   Passed    0.22 sec
1> 48/ 48 Testing UserProp7 ....................   Passed    0.14 sec
1>100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 48
1>Total CPU time =  11.78 sec
1>Build log was saved at
"file://x:\32Bit\VC.80\Qt\QtBasicUtils\RUN_TESTS.dir\RelWithDebInfo\BuildLog.htm"
1>RUN_TESTS - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========