Re: [Boost-users] naming a test

[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup] Eric Prud'hommeaux spake the secret code <20140527203520.GX5022@w3.org> thusly:

* Richard [2014-05-27 19:15+0000]

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Do you really need to build the test case tree by hand?

Generally, yes. I'm working from standard test suites and it makes more sense to read them from the manifest than to write some emacs macro to turn the manifest into procedural code.

I see.

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. I used the preprocessor output to override the 2nd arg to make_test_case with a name of my choosing: ts->add(boost::unit_test::make_test_case (boost::unit_test::callback0<> (boost::bind( &free_test_function, 1, 2)), boost::unit_test::const_string( minor, 1)));

The arguments to boost::unit_test::const_string are the char const* pointer to the string and the number of characters in the string. (For a C style string literal "foo" this is sizeof("foo")-1 which evaluates to 3.) Did you really mean to pass in 1 as the number of characters? boost::unit_test::const_string takes a C-style string literal and provides std::string style compatible semantics (i.e. iterators, length property, etc.). You can think of BOOST_TEST_CASE as just a more convenient way of invoking the constructor for boost::unit_test::test_case: http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/boost.test/libs/test/doc/html/test/refere... I don't see any reason why you couldn't invoke the constructor directly. As for how fragile all of this is -- your guess is as good as mine; I'm not the implementor of the library. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline The Computer Graphics Museum http://computergraphicsmuseum.org The Terminals Wiki http://terminals.classiccmp.org Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com