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".
>>
>>
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