Jan Stolarek <fremenzone <at> poczta.onet.pl> writes:

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Boost.Test do not support this setup out of the box

It seems to me that there's no unit testing framework for C++ that would support that (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Boost.Test does support it. It's just require some extra leg work from you.

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Which particular part? For example this : "Sub test case names are deduced from the macro argument test_case_name. If you prefer to assign different test case names, you need to use the underlying make_test_case interface instead." More details on that would be nice. It would also be great to add more complex examples. Examples for each section are clear, however problems arise when one tries to combine concepts from many sections.

These rather belong to the advanced usage cases. These docs are only in plans.

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This is not a good idea. I found it in documentation for Boost 1.34 :

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_34_1/libs/test/doc/tests/parameterized_test_... This is not what expected to do. This is my own internal unit test.

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Your best shot probably is to try to do this in global fixture. Would this be a good solution if I had many tests with lots of data sets?

Should not matter, but I just tested and global fixture is invoked too late.

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You can implement your own generator. Could you point me to example on how to do that?

You can look into the code. There are at least two implemented there.

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Also you probably should register your test units directly under framework::master_test_suite() As mentioned in my fisrt mail I have tried that but with no result. It seems that I got something wrong with what I can add to master test suite.

Here an example that works fine: #define BOOST_TEST_MAIN #include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp> #include <boost/test/parameterized_test.hpp> using namespace boost::unit_test; // STL #include <vector> #include <string> //____________________________________________________________________________// // this free function is invoked with all parameters specified in a list void check_string( std::string const& s ) { // reports 'error in "check_string": test s.substr( 0, 3 ) == "hdr" failed [actual_value != hdr]' BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( s.substr( 0, 3 ), "hdr" ); } //____________________________________________________________________________// static struct Setup { Setup() { framework::master_test_suite().p_name.value = "Automatically registered param test case"; // parameters have no requirements to stay alive beyond the next statement std::string const params[] = { "hdr1 ", "hdr2", "3 " }; framework::master_test_suite().add( BOOST_PARAM_TEST_CASE( &check_string, (std::string const*)params, params+3 ) ); } } _s_setup; //____________________________________________________________________________//