Folks - I would appreciate any help for the following question .. _____ From: Ranji Raghavan [mailto:ranji.raghavan@openspirit.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:23 AM To: 'boost-test@emailaccount.com' Subject: Question about Boost.Test Hello Gennadiy - I have been asked recently to investigate an UNIT testing tool for our C++ framework we have and have taken a quick stab at cppUnit, CxxTest and I am currently looking into Boost.Test. I have a fair bit of experience in JUnit and MbUnit/NUnit that we have used to unit test the JAVA & .NET version of the same application. What we are trying to accomplish (and have accomplished for JAVA & .NET versions at least) is to have all our test cases defined in XML files - this way we have the same inputs for the .NET, JAVA & C++ versions of our application. JUnit & MbUnit have the capability that allows me to feed different data sets (1000's of them in some case) to the same test method. Delving into cppUnit & CxxTest, I could not find any pragmatic way to feed disparate data sets to the same test method - or at least that's what I gather from what little I could decipher. But looking at Boost.Test I did find BOOST_PARAM_CLASS_TEST_CASE( test_class_method_pointer, first_parameter, last_parameter ) method that caught my attention. The question I have for you is this: Can I pass an instance of a class (that contains all the requisite data I parsed from the XML file) to a test method. For example - class my_complex_test { void test_assignment( can this be an instance of a class? ) { ... } }; ... std::list<can this be a list that holds instances of a class> possible_xmlvalues; ts->add( BOOST_PARAM_CLASS_TEST_CASE( &my_complex_test::test_assignment, possible_xmlvalues.begin(), possible_xmlvalues.end() ) ); Any help you can render will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Ranji Raghavan