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UnitTest++

UnitTest++ is a lightweight unit testing framework for C++. It was designed to do test-driven development on a wide variety of platforms. Simplicity, portability, speed, and small footprint are all very important aspects of UnitTest++. UnitTest++ is mostly standard C++ and makes minimal use of advanced library and language features, which means it should be easily portable to just about any platform. Out of the box, the following platforms are supported:

Windows
Linux
Mac OS X

Documentation

The full documentation for building and using UnitTest++ can be found on the GitHub wiki page. The contents of this wiki are also included as a git submodule under the docs folder, so version-specific Markdown documentation is always available along with the download.

Pre-requisites

While there are currently some bundled automake files, UnitTest++ is primarily built and supported using CMake.

Downloading

Latest (HEAD)

Via git:

git clone https://github.com/unittest-cpp/unittest-cpp

Via svn:

svn checkout https://github.com/unittest-cpp/unittest-cpp/trunk unittest-cpp

Latest release (v2.0.0)

Via git:

git clone https://github.com/unittest-cpp/unittest-cpp
cd unittest-cpp
git checkout v2.0.0

Via svn:

svn checkout https://github.com/unittest-cpp/unittest-cpp/tags/v2.0.0 unittest-cpp

License

UnitTest++ is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the License contained in the file LICENSE distributed with this package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license.

Contributors

GitHub Contributor Graph

Current Maintainers:

Patrick Johnmeyer (pjohnmeyer@gmail.com) @pjohnmeyer
Charles Nicholson (charles.nicholson@gmail.com) @charlesnicholson

Original Authors:

Noel Llopis (llopis@convexhull.com)
Charles Nicholson (charles.nicholson@gmail.com)

Contributors not included in github history

Jim Tilander
Kim Grasman
Jonathan Jansson
Dirck Blaskey
Rory Driscoll
Dan Lind
Matt Kimmel -- Submitted with permission from Blue Fang Games
Anthony Moralez
Jeff Dixon
Randy Coulman
Lieven van der Heide

Historic release notes

Version 2.0.0 (2017-01-13)

Change Check method supporting CHECK macro to accept argument by reference
Introduce long macro forms (e.g. UNITTEST_CHECK); make short forms optional
Improved Visual Studio 2015 support
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Version 1.6.0 (2016-02-29)

Add REQUIRE macro to end tests early when selected checks fail
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Version 1.5.1 (2016-01-30)

pkg-config support
Fix for Visual Studio 2010 compilation issue in 1.5.0
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Version 1.5 (2015-11-04)

Visual Studio 2015 support
CMake-based build management
Integration of SourceForge and Google Code versions of the project
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Version 1.4 (2008-10-30)

CHECK macros work at arbitrary stack depth from inside TESTs.
Remove obsolete TEST_UTILITY macros
Predicated test execution (via TestRunner::RunTestsIf)
Better exception handling for fixture ctors/dtors.
VC6/7/8/9 support

Version 1.3 (2007-4-22)

Removed dynamic memory allocations (other than streams)
MinGW support
Consistent (native) line endings
Minor bug fixing

Version 1.2 (2006-10-29)

First pass at documentation.
More detailed error crash catching in fixtures.
Standard streams used for printing objects under check. This should allow the use of standard class types such as std::string or other custom classes with stream operators to ostream.
Standard streams can be optionally compiled off by defining UNITTEST_USE_CUSTOM_STREAMS in Config.h
Added named test suites
Added CHECK_ARRAY2D_CLOSE
Posix library name is libUnitTest++.a now
Floating point numbers are postfixed with 'f' in the failure reports

Version 1.1 (2006-04-18)

CHECK macros do not have side effects even if one of the parameters changes state
Removed CHECK_ARRAY_EQUAL (too similar to CHECK_ARRAY_CLOSE)
Added local and global time constraints
Removed dependencies on strstream
Improved Posix signal to exception translator
Failing tests are added to Visual Studio's error list
Fixed Visual Studio projects to work with spaces in directories

Version 1.0 (2006-03-15)

Initial release