AMDG On 10/19/2012 08:03 PM, Gennadiy Rozenal wrote:
Hi,
It's been a long while since I merged any changes into boost release and by now there are whole bunch of new features there. Some are small, but some others are big ones such that they can change the way people use the library. I'd like to list them here (excluding bug fixes and removal of deprecated interfaces) and ask what should we do with these. Specifically let me know if you think these require some kind of (mini) review from community, but any other comments are welcome as well.
So here we go:
I. New testing tool BOOST_CHECKA
This tool is based on excellent idea from Kevlin Henney. I chose the name CHECKA for this tool due to the lack of better name, but I am open to suggestions.
BOOST_CHECK_EXPR? Ideally I'd like this to be called BOOST_CHECK, but I don't think that can be made perfectly backwards compatible.
This testing tool capable of replacing whole bunch of existing other tools like BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL, BOOST_CHECK_GT etc. Usage is the most natural you can wish for:
BOOST_CHECKA( var1 - var2 >= 12 );
And the output will include as much information as we can get:
error: in "foo": check var1 - var2 >= 12 failed [23-15<12]
I like it, however, the limitations need to be clearly documented.
II. New "data driven test case" subsystem
<snip> Here are couple examples:
int samples1[] = {1,2,3}; BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE( t1, samples1, sample ) { BOOST_CHECKA( foo(sample) > 0 ); }
This is great. I've often needed this functionality and I've always ended up writing manual loops. In Christ, Steven Watanabe