Hello boost-users, I tried to test protected/private class methods by declaring the test-case-class as a friend of the class-to-test. The test-case-class is defined by the macro BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(T, F). That works fine as long as I encapsulate the test-case with BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE(suite_name) and BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END(). I'm not able to define the correct friend declaration, cause the compiler . Can someone give me hint, please? the code looks like this: // test-case-class.cpp namespace foo { namespace bar { BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE(suite_name) struct F { class-to-test class_to_test_instance; } . . . BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(test-case-class, F) { F.class_to_test_instance.i; . . . } . . . BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END() }} class-to-test.cpp namespace foo { namespace bar { . . . class class-to-test { public: friend struct test-case-class; // that's wrong // No access to protected member i friend struct suite_name::test-case-class; // this is wrong, too: compiler error, can't find foo::bar::suite_name, .... protected: int i; . . . }; }} greetz, modbom -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf@gmx