On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Patrick Michael Niedzielski < patrickniedziel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm sending this email to request some comments on a C++11 library I've > written based on Test::More. I hope this is on topic for this mailing > list. If there are better places for this, could you direct me to them? > > cipra is a header-only C++11 testing library based on Test::More. I > know there are several active users of it, by email correspondence, so > some of you may have heard of it before. It's a TAP13 provider and can > be used with any TAP harness. When I was designing it, I tried to map > the semantics of Test::More to C++11, without a lot of the baggage of > other libraries, like CppUnit or Boost.Test. > > You can find cipra here <http://cipra.sourceforge.net/>. > > A year and a half after the initial design, I think I can do better. > I'm planning a new version that even more closely models Test::More and > that adds new features. I want to make sure there are not useful things > that I'm missing, though. As such, I'd love if anyone here who also > uses C++11 and is looking for a testing library could play around with > the cipra and see if there are any things you miss from Test::More, or > any other limitations you run into. Some examples of the comments I'm > looking for (and either have myself or have gotten by other users) are: > > * Add YAMLish output to give better debug information. > * Implement a TAP Harness in C++, so we don't need Perl as a > dependency just for the "prove" command. > * Add subtests, and make sure they are thread-safe. > > Thanks in advance for any comments you have. I really appreciate any > feedback! > Actually, I also wrote a C++ Test::More clone as part of my libperl++[1] effort, but due to testanything.org having crashed I suspect it's currently essentially unfindable. Also, I wrote it before C++11 was out. I don't have the time to look at it right now, but I'd be most interested in cooperating on this :-) Leon 1: https://github.com/Leont/libperl--
