Part IV. Boost Test Library: The Unit Test Framework

Table of Contents

Introduction

Tutorials

Introduction into testing

Hello the testing world

Boost.Test driven development

Compilation

Standalone library compilation

Auto-linking support

Direct include

User's guide

Usage variants

Static library

Dynamic library

Single header

External test runner

Supplied test runners

External test runner

Test module initialization

Test organization

Nullary function based test case

Manual registration

Automated registration

Unary function based test case

Test case template

Manual registration

Automated registration

Test suite

Manual registration

Automated registration

Master Test Suite

Expected failures specification

Fixtures

Generic model

Per test case

Test suite shared

Global fixture

Test Output

Test log

BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE

BOOST_TEST_CHECKPOINT

BOOST_TEST_PASSPOINT

Logging floating point type numbers

Human readable format

XML based log output format

Compile time configuration

Test report output

Progress display

Runtime configuration

Run by name

Parameters reference

Testing tools

Output testing tool

Custom predicate support

Floating-point comparison algorithms

Reference

Usage recommendations

Generic

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET users specific

Command-line (non-GUI) users specific