[Insight-developers] Test framework

[Bill Lorensen]

Long live VS6 and 7!!!

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
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> Hi Dan,
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> Thanks for adding to the Wiki the information on GoogleTest.
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> Two questions:
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> A)  You mention that it
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>         "trivially compiles using CMake without
>          configuration or modification. "
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>    Is that right ?
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>    I downloaded version: gtest-1.2.1.tar.gz (released Dec 11)
>    and couldn't find CMakeLists.txt files in it.
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>    There are standard configure and scons constructs  in the
>    directory...
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>    Have you written a CMakeLists.txt file for gtest ?
>    If so, could you please share it ? (maybe attach it to
>    the Wiki)
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>
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> B) The README file indicates that in order to build it on
>   Windows it requires Visual Studio 7.1 or newer.
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>   This may actually be a good opportunity for
>   singing the Requiem for Visual Studio 6.0 and 7.0.   :-)
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>
>
>  Thanks
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>
>      Luis
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>
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> Blezek, Daniel J. wrote:
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>> Yep, it is cool.  We've been using it extensively and I really like it.
>> On reflection, I'm not sure it will be a drop in replacement for the
>> test routines currently in use, without some messing around with the
>> internals.  The framework manages test discovery and execution and
>> leaves it intentionally opaque.  However, a good strategy might be to
>> leave the existing tests in place and start using a new test framework,
>> i.e., make itkCommonTests3 use the new framework.
>>
>> I documented our experiences with Google Test on the wiki as you
>> suggested:
>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Proposals:Increasing_ITK_Code_Coverage#Google_Te
>> st
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>> Cheers,
>> -dan
>