On 12/07/2016 10:55 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > On 12/07/2016 10:35 AM, Michael Steinberg wrote: >> Hello Orson, >> >> >> Am 07.12.2016 um 10:29 schrieb Maciej Sumiński: >>> I used to work with projects that had multiple small unit tests and it >>> was quite neat solution. Do you think it would be much harder to apply >>> the same rules here? If so, I would not mind having one-to-one relation >>> between targets and tests, especially that one can easily separate tests >>> using boost.test judging from the screenshot you posted. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Orson >> That would absolutely be possible, my intention avoiding that on the >> first shot was only that I feared having a full executable link process >> per test/test case might be a bit troublesome in the long run. Did you >> have no problems with that, how many tests were there, did it slow down >> the build process at all? No matter how many test targets we produce, >> CTest will only ever say "passed" or "not passed" for each without any >> further information of what is the cause, if I'm not completely mistaken. >> >> Michael > > Linking against a shared library (e.g. _pcbnew.kiface) should be quick. > Tom has been testing a similar approach [1], though without using CTest, > but it shows the idea. > > CTest is able to give extra information once a build fails [2]. > Apparently whatever approach we choose we will have more or less the > same information available. I do not really see any exceptional benefit > of one method over the other, so IMHO we can go with whatever is easier > to set up. > > Regards, > Orson > > 1. > https://github.com/twlostow/kicad-dev/commit/bec46081ea3bf0e2862615fc6040a86beda5785f > 2. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.8/ctest.html#opt%3a--output-on-failure
One thing worth checking is whether boost.test continues tests after a test fails. Full report is a valuable information, sometimes I was able to tell what went wrong without launching gdb, but simply by looking at a list of failed tests. Regards, Orson
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