[vtk-developers] C++ unit tests

[David Cole]

A single header file unit testing solution sounds like a good thing.

... but ... seems like we could also take advantage of a
well-established generally used unit testing framework (like gtest or
CppUnit) just as easily, and not clutter the VTK source with
yet-another-custom-thing-to-learn-about-VTKs-infrastructure.

Would it be just as easy to add unit testing using an external unit
testing package? Or are there things about that scenario that are
overly complicated that having our own makes simpler...?


David C.



On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:25 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've always enjoyed using the python unit testing framework in "vtk.test".
> It's been brought up on the list before, but it would be nice if VTK
> included a unit test framework for C++, as well.
>
> For my work projects, I've been using a unit test header that I wrote a year
> and a half ago:
> https://github.com/dgobbi/UnitTest/blob/master/UnitTest.h
>
> It's a single header file that provides a collection of macros for building
> unit tests, it's meant to be innocuous and easy to use.  It could go into
> VTK as Testing/Core/vtkUnitTest.h and people could use it at their leisure.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>  - David
>
>
>
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