Hi Vicente, The sub-libraries have the following dependencies: - metatest doesn't really depend on any of the libraries (one of its examples depends on metamonad, but it can be moved to metamonad) - metamonad depends on metatest - metaparse depends on metatest and metamonad - safe_printf depends on metaparse (it has no test cases yet) Test cases should be nullary metafunctions returning boolean values indicating success/failure of the test case - the condition of the static assertion - instead of using static assertions themselves. Metatest collects this information and displays it in a final summary. A static assertion failure in metatest is similar to a core dump while running runtime tests, the testing library can't catch it. When metafunctions verify their arguments, they can throw compile-time exceptions (implemented in metamonad) instead of using static assertions. Those exceptions can be caught and handled by the testing framework (and added to the test report). Metatest contains a solution for pretty-printing template expressions, thus the reason of failures can be displayed in a standard format independent of the compiler/platform. You can find a number of MPL test cases ported to metatest in the metatest examples (libs/metatest/example/boost_mpl_unit_test in the source tree). You can take a look at them and generate example reports (plain-text, HTML/JavaScript, Boost.Test). Regards, Abel Am Freitag, den 09.09.2011, 21:44 +0200 schrieb Vicente J. Botet Escriba:
Le 07/09/11 22:29, Ábel Sinkovics a écrit : Hi,
I find in general all your libraries quite interesting.
What are the dependencies between these sub-libraries?
A meta program test case fails if you call static assert on some static condition, isn't it. If the user uses Boost.Test or any other kind of runtime check then the compilation doesn't fails. I'm wondering what metatest adds to Boost.Test then?
I hope to comeback with more comments of your libraries soon.
Good work, Vicente
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