Re: [Boost-users] whitebox testing with boost unit test framework?

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Chris Cleeland writes:

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I'm using the boost unit test framework to implement unit tests for code. I'm wondering if there is a best-practice for doing white-box testing/internal state inspection of types under test. My hack right now is to strip out "protected" and "private" from the header, but I hold my nose as I do that.

I don't use private members in the header file and put a subclass in the test implementation that makes the parent class' protected API public. [...]

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