I've been trying out the auto-test items in Boost.Test, re-doing them when the recent changes were uploaded to CVS. I decided to template-ize a test case I had, going from BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE to BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE with a MPL list of the types I wanted. The complier spit out 10 errors. (I think that's a lot, but for some posters here that's a little.) After using the preprocessor to copy & paste the expansion of BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE directly into my test file, I narrowed down the errors to two actual problems:
1. The compiler never heard of boost::type 2. And it never heard of boost::unit_test::ut_detail:: template_test_case_gen
These can be found in the <boost/type.hpp> (after 10 minutes of searching) and <boost/test/test_case_template.hpp> (after 30 minutes of searching) headers, respectively. Directly #including them in my test file got my testing to work.
The simple solution is to make sure to _directly_ include the headers for the items you need to compile....
[Does some checking of the auto-test examples.]
The example for BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE shows that <boost/test/test_case_template.hpp> needs to be manually #included. This is
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE does require to be manually included. I've decided to follow "Don't pay for something you are not using" principle. If there is a general consensus I could include this header into unit_test.hpp. boost/type.hpp is included in boost/test/test_case_template.hpp, so you shouldn't have any problems. Gennadiy