How to set up unit testing for Visual Studio C++
c++, frameworks, testing, unit-testing, visual-studio-2008
Solution
This page may help, it reviews quite a few C++ unit test frameworks:
- CppUnit
- Boost.Test
- CppUnitLite
- NanoCppUnit
- Unit++
- CxxTest
Check out CPPUnitLite or CPPUnitLite2.
CPPUnitLite was created by Michael Feathers, who originally ported Java's JUnit to C++ as CPPUnit (CPPUnit tries mimic the development model of JUnit - but C++ lacks Java's features [e.g. reflection] to make it easy to use).
CPPUnitLite attempts to make a true C++-style testing framework, not a Java one ported to C++. (I'm paraphrasing from Feather's Working Effectively with Legacy Code book). CPPUnitLite2 seems to be another rewrite, with more features and bug fixes.
I also just stumbled across UnitTest++ which includes stuff from CPPUnitLite2 and some other framework.
Microsoft has released WinUnit.
Also checkout Catch or Doctest
Problem
I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the testing framework set up and usable in Visual Studio 2008 for C++ presumably with the built-in unit testing suite. Any links or tutorials would be appreciated.