Hello, to set up and tear down database connections for unit tests, I need something like parametrized test fixtures. Up to now (using an old version of Boost.Test) I was creating a customized test suite (by deriving from test_suite) and performed the connection handling during construction/destruction of the customized test suite. As the latest Boost.Test now has explicit support for test fixtures, I was looking at how I could replace my old approach by using a test suite fixture. The fixture would need to look something like this: struct F { F(string db_name) { connect to db_name } ~F() { disconnect from db_name } }; Now, the Boost.Test documentation tells me that a fixture is supposed to be used like this: BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE( s, F ) So there doesn't seem to be a way of passing parameters to the constructor of the fixture. Is there any? Or is there any other way to obtain a parametrized fixture? Or should I just keep on using customized test suites? TIA, Markus