Comments on: Nitty Gritty Unit Testing

By: Games from Within | Mock Objects: Friends Or Foes?

Games from Within | Mock Objects: Friends Or Foes? — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:26:23 +0000

[...] In a previous article we covered all the details necessary to start using unit testing on a real-world project. That was enough knowledge to get started and tackle just about any codebase. Eventually you might have found yourself doing a lot of typing, writing redundant tests, or having a frustrating time interfacing with some libraries and still trying to write unit tests. Mock objects are the final piece in your toolkit that allow you to test like a pro in just about any codebase. [...]

By: erwincoumans

erwincoumans — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:15:48 +0000

In http://gamesfromwithin.com/exploring-the-c-unit-testing-framework-jungle you write that cppunit requires STL, RTTI etc.

It seems cppunit requires none of those features, they can all be disabled. From the CodingGuideLines.txt (http://bit.ly/9w8JUL)

“In brief, it should be possible to compile CppUnit on a C++ compiler that do
not have the following features:
- C++ style cast
- mutable and typename keyword
- RTTI
- template default parameters
- templatized member functions (that is a template function declared within a
class).
- namespace

As such, usage of those features should always be optional.”

By: Dr. Bubba

Dr. Bubba — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:58:55 +0000

Noel, thanks for posting that. I always learn something from your posts. They are what got me started doing XP and using UnitTest++ several years ago.

By: glebd

glebd — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:35:22 +0000

@SnappyTouch Ooh, UnitTest++ is my favourite, the best there is for C++

By: Bob_at_BH

Bob_at_BH — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:19:36 +0000

@SnappyTouch (Best. Logo. EVER. btw…nice one…eh, two)

By: mysterycoconut

mysterycoconut — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:15:58 +0000

@SnappyTouch that’s not cheating, is intelligent use of resources

By: SnappyTouch

SnappyTouch — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:13:42 +0000

@mysterycoconut If you see the bottom of the post, you see I “cheated”. It’s a re-print from an old Game Developer column

By: mysterycoconut

mysterycoconut — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:49:28 +0000

@SnappyTouch whaaa? Is really so easy that you can post multiple times a week without a sweat? And here I’m on Monday with the shakes again

By: SnappyTouch

SnappyTouch — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:39:36 +0000

@julianrex I bought a Mac Mini for that exact purpose. Haven’t been using it very much though. I should!

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:36:35 +0000

Thanks. I had forgotten I had to escape it, even within the pre tag. Fixed.

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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:14:19 +0000

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By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:09:34 +0000

Your “#include” line gets cut off in my browser, I never see UnitTest++.h in angle brackets. Looks like an escape formatting issue…

By: julianrex

julianrex — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:06:07 +0000

@SnappyTouch re your post: do you use a build server for your iPhone work? Tempted by a mac mini for that (plus a bunch of other stuff!)

By: SnappyTouch

SnappyTouch — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:52:28 +0000

New blog post: Nitty Gritty Unit Testing http://gamesfromwithin.com/nitty-gritty-... Second part on mocks coming soon