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From: Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
To: "Doherty, Declan" <declan.doherty@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/4] Use Google Test as DPDK unit test framework
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 13:41:39 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4d4d6e8-371a-8f79-325f-8b312b4cd263@sts.kz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <345C63BAECC1AD42A2EC8C63AFFC3ADC2829180F@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com>


On 03.08.2016 15:57, Doherty, Declan wrote:
> Some of the things I've come across include:
> No standard output format to integrated with continuous regression systems
> No ability to specify specific unit tests or groups of tests to run from the command line
> No standard set of test assertions used across the test suites.
> No standard setup and teardown functions across test suites, state from previous test
> suite can break current
> Requirement to use a python script to orchestrate test runs.
> No support for mocking functionality.
>
> I know that none of the above couldn't be fixed in our current test application, but I would
> question if it is effort worthwhile when we take an off the shelf framework, which does all
> those things and a whole lot more, which has been test and used in a huge variety of
> projects.
>
> I certainly willing to look at other frameworks both C and C++ but I yet to find a C framework
> which come close to the usability and flexibility of the popular C++ ones.

We use cmocka.org for tests. Written in C. It has support for:
* mocking;
* setup/teardown;
* asserts;
* test groups.

Output is nicely formatted.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-05  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02 20:37 Declan Doherty
2016-08-02 20:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/4] mk: Add support for C++ compilation Declan Doherty
2016-08-02 20:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/4] examples: add c++ example application Declan Doherty
2016-08-02 20:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/4] eal: add command line option to log output to stdout Declan Doherty
2016-08-03 11:25   ` Neil Horman
2016-08-02 20:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 4/4] app/test-gtest: example google test application Declan Doherty
2016-08-02 21:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/4] Use Google Test as DPDK unit test framework Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-03  9:16   ` Remy Horton
2016-08-03  9:57   ` Doherty, Declan
2016-08-03 12:51     ` Neil Horman
2016-08-03 20:46     ` Ming Zhao
2016-08-04 19:47       ` Jim Murphy
2016-08-04 19:55         ` Wiles, Keith
2016-08-05  7:42           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-05  7:41     ` Yerden Zhumabekov [this message]
2016-08-05  9:11       ` Remy Horton
2016-08-05 12:59         ` Neil Horman
2016-08-05 14:54           ` Remy Horton
2016-08-03 11:31   ` Neil Horman

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