[vtk-developers] C++ unit tests

[David Cole]

Have you tested it on all the typical target VTK platforms already, or
is the VTK dashboard going to light up the first time it builds on
those ...?

Presumably you use it on multiple platforms, but probably not quite
all of the ones VTK dashboards get tested on.


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:43 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David (and David),
>
> The only advantage of my unit test header is that it is a single header
> (a short one, too) with zero dependencies.  So it's easy to add to VTK
> and it's trivial to maintain.
>
> If either of you has a better solution, then go ahead and make a merge
> request.  I'll review it for you ;)
>
>  - David
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:27 AM, David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Another project I work on has been using Bandit[1] to good effect.
>>
>>         David
>>
>> [1]:http://banditcpp.org/reference.html
>>
>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 10:01 AM, David Cole via vtk-developers
>> <vtk-developers at vtk.org> wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>>
>