[CMake] CTest + unit test frameworks integration

[Bill Hoffman]

Yuri Timenkov wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2008 22:38:26 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> On Friday 18 July 2008, Yuri Timenkov wrote:
>>> Does anyone have an experience in integrating Unit test frameworks with
>>> CTest? AFAIK many of such frameworks provide means to register tests and
>>> test cases, and it would be nice to make ctest aware of such things,
>>> because it's not good to make changes in multiple places when I add new
>>> test.
>>>
>>> I know, KDE has some things, but their approach doesn't allow to run
>>> single test.
>> Do you mean with a "single" test a single test executable with all tests or
>> a single test within a single test executable ?
>> If there is something bad, of course we'll try to fix it.
> I mean QTest allows to have multiple tests in single executable. So with CTest 
> you have 2 options:
> 1) run all QTest tests as single CTest test (as it is works now).
> 2) Add custom CTest target which runs only selected tests.
> 
> This is just an idea how to have multiple tests in single executable and 
> ability to invoke each of them from CTest.
> 

This looks like a good idea.  I would say each QTest should be a test in 
CTest.  Creating a module with some functions/macros to make this happen 
sounds like a good idea to me.

-Bill

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