[cmake-developers] Testing Groups

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday, June 10, 2013 09:19:15 AM Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working on some libraries [1] which allows you advanced
> testing of daemons. Especially ones which require a network in testing.
> However for using this I need some features in CMake. This should be a
> discussion about these features. Maybe others have ideas and comments.
> 
> What I would like to have is a feature to group tests. By default everything
> is in a standard test group. But you can define a special one:
> 
> add_test(NAME <name> [CONFIGURATIONS [Debug|Release|...]]
>          [GROUP <test_group>]
>          [WORKING_DIRECTORY dir]
>          COMMAND <command> [arg1 [arg2 ...]])
> 
> 
> For a test group I need a way to define a setup/teardown command. Some tests
> might require a special setup on the machine to be able to run correctly.
> Like setting up a fake network.
> 
> set_test_group_properties(PROPERTIES
>     SETUP <command> [arg1 [arg2 ...]]
>     TEARDOWN <command> [arg1 [arg2 ...]]
>     ENVIRONMENT <env>)
> 
> The setup function is called before the first test of the group is executed
> and the teardown functions after the last test finished. The environment
> should be obvious.
> 
> 
> Please comment.

Why not simply set up and tear down that network for every test ?

Alex