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lightweight_test

Header <boost/core/lightweight_test.hpp>
Header <boost/core/lightweight_test_trait.hpp>

Authors

  • Peter Dimov
  • Beman Dawes

The header <boost/core/lightweight_test.hpp> is a lightweight test framework. It's useful for writing Boost regression tests for components that are dependencies of Boost.Test.

When using lightweight_test.hpp, do not forget to return boost::report_errors() from main.

#define BOOST_TEST(expression) /*unspecified*/
#define BOOST_ERROR(message) /*unspecified*/
#define BOOST_TEST_EQ(expr1, expr2) /*unspecified*/
#define BOOST_TEST_NE(expr1, expr2) /*unspecified*/
#define BOOST_TEST_THROWS(expr, excep) /*unspecified*/

namespace boost
{
    int report_errors();
}
BOOST_TEST(expression)

If expression is false increases the error count and outputs a message containing expression.

BOOST_ERROR(message)

Increases error count and outputs a message containing message.

BOOST_TEST_EQ(expr1, expr2)

If expr1 != expr2 increases the error count and outputs a message containing both expressions.

BOOST_TEST_NE(expr1, expr2)

If expr1 == expr2 increases the error count and outputs a message containing both expressions.

BOOST_TEST_THROWS(expr, excep)

If BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is not defined and if expr does not throw an exception of type excep, increases the error count and outputs a message containing the expression.

If BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined, this macro expands to nothing and expr is not evaluated.

int boost::report_errors()

Return the error count from main.

#include <boost/core/lightweight_test.hpp>

int sqr( int x )
{
    return x * x;
}

int main()
{
    BOOST_TEST( sqr(2) == 4 );
    BOOST_TEST_EQ( sqr(-3), 9 );

    return boost::report_errors();
}

The header <boost/core/lightweight_test_trait.hpp> defines a couple of extra macros for testing compile-time traits that return a boolean value.

#define BOOST_TEST_TRAIT_TRUE((Trait)) /*unspecified*/
#define BOOST_TEST_TRAIT_FALSE((Trait)) /*unspecified*/
BOOST_TEST_TRAIT_TRUE((Trait))

If Trait::value != true increases the error count and outputs a message containing Trait. Note the double set of parentheses; these enable Trait to contain a comma, which is common for templates.

BOOST_TEST_TRAIT_FALSE((Trait))

If Trait::value != false increases the error count and outputs a message containing Trait. Note the double set of parentheses.

#include <boost/core/lightweight_test_trait.hpp>
#include <boost/core/is_same.hpp>

template<class T, class U> struct X
{
    typedef T type;
};

using boost::core::is_same;

int main()
{
    BOOST_TEST_TRAIT_TRUE(( is_same<X<int, long>::type, int> ));

    return boost::report_errors();
}

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