Hi I also use the Boost.Test + CMake + Jenkins - it's work pretty well...
Regarding packaging - have you tried CPack? For us it works without much problems On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Denis Arnaud <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vadim, > > Boost.Test, in combination with CMake, works pretty well. Moreover, it > integrates smoothly with many CI (continuous integration) frameworks such as > Jenkins/Hudson and Travis-CI. > You can browse through a full example with the following project: > http://github.com/airsim/stdair/. By default, (Boost.Test-based) test > checking is activated; it may be de-activated thanks to the > '-DENABLE_TEST:BOOL=OFF' option passed to the CMake command-line. (In order > for you to see how the dependency on Boost.Test is handled at the > installation/deployment level) an example of packaging such a component in > Fedora/CentOS/RedHat is given by the RPM specification file: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/stdair.git/tree/stdair.spec. > > Hope that helps. > > Kind regards > > Denis > > > > 2013/3/23 Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]> >> >> Hello, >> >> I've done my first modifications to the SOCI unit tests recently and it >> wasn't a very pleasant experience. The 2 main reasons for this are the >> rather unusual tests organization and the use of assert() instead of some >> more advanced mechanism. I'm especially riled by the latter because >> assert() is just not good enough: it doesn't show you which test failed, >> it >> doesn't show you the values of the variables with which it failed and it >> doesn't allow you to continue running past the first failure. >> >> So I wonder what do you think about using some testing framework instead. >> Considering SOCI existing dependencies on Boost it could make sense to use >> Boost.Test >> (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html) >> but OTOH all the current dependencies are optional, while this one would >> be >> semi-required as it's really nice to be able to run tests even if you >> don't >> use Boost. >> >> Hence an alternative solution: CATCH. This means "C++ AutomatedTest Cases >> in Headers" and, as you can see at https://github.com/philsquared/Catch >> [1] >> it is just a single header and all you need to do to start using it is to >> just include it. It is also really nice in that it's enough to write >> >> CHECK( ul == 4000000000ul ); >> >> to see the value of "ul" if the test fails, i.e. you have just a single >> CHECK() which does everything, whereas with Boost.Test you need to use a >> specific macro: >> >> BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( ul, 4000000000ul ); >> >> Personally I think this is a great idea but I admit that I haven't used >> CATCH in really big test suites so I don't know what effect all the >> meta-programming machinery necessary to make the above work has on the >> compile times. Still, I believe CATCH would be a good fit for SOCI, so >> what >> do you think about starting to use it? >> >> And if not, using Boost.Test would still be much better than relying on >> bad old assert()... >> >> Finally, this is definitely not 3.2-critical but it would be nice to have >> an agreement about this before the tests need to be modified the next >> time. >> >> Regards, >> VZ >> >> [1] If you want to see the project activity, look at "integration" branch, >> not the default "master". >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar >> _______________________________________________ >> soci-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > soci-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users > -- With best wishes, Alex Ott http://alexott.net/ Twitter: alexott_en (English), alexott (Russian) Skype: alex.ott ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ soci-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users
