[vtk-developers] C++ unit tests

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:29 AM, David Cole <DLRdave at aol.com> wrote:

> 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 ...?
>

You're being silly.  The dashboards run on merge requests specifically to
catch platform-specific issues so that they can be fixed prior to merge.
This isn't the old days of VTK where we all pushed directly to master.

 - David


>
> 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
> >>
> >
>
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