Re: [boost] [BoostBook] how to automatically test code examples?

On 10/19/17 3:03 AM, Hans Dembinski via Boost wrote:

Dear Daniel,

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On 19. Oct 2017, at 11:43, Daniel James via Boost wrote:

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I didn't get any reply so far… was my question stupid? Or is it simply that no one knows? Is the author of BoostBook, Douglas Gregor, not around anymore?

Sorry, I was looking into this but a power cut got in the way. It looks like the xsl script at tools/boostbook/xsl/testing/Jamfile.xsl will generate a jamfile and test cases from tests marked up in xml, and you can find the xml schema details in the boostbook reference documentation. There doesn't seem to be any support for running this from boost build though.

thank you for looking into this :) I am still confused how to use this, though. I guess I will stick to my poor-mans cmake/python-based solution for now.

Here's the way I handle this: I make up my examples in the "example" directory. This includes a Jamfile to build and run the examples. I create the BoostBook xml using and XMLmind - an xml editor. Within that environment I just use an "Include" directive to include the source code of the example in the correct place - easy as pie. If you download the slides associated with my recent CPPCon presentation, you can see how it's done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxmdCxX9dMk you can download the slides and example here: http://www.rrsd.com Robert Ramey