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In Part 2, you recommend using the CHECK macros by default. Being a long-time Boost.Test user (as well as a long-time TDD:er) I strongly believe that by default one should always use the REQUIRE variety of the Boost.Test macros, for a couple of reasons [...]
I'll see about getting that updated soon.
People will probably object to the above, saying that the want to test multiple things in the same test, and want to see the result of all "related verifications". [...]
If you read through the whole series, you'll see that each test case tests one thing and one thing only. I link to xUnit Test Patterns book online, which has quite a bit to say about test smells. There's so much to cover on this subject and the posts were already getting a bit lengthy (originally I thought it would be 1 blog post!). Thanks for the feedback. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com