Table of Contents

Introduction

Design rationale

How to read this documentation

Usage variants

Declaring and organizing tests

Test cases

Test cases without parameters

Data-driven test cases

Template test cases

Parametrized test cases

Test tree

Test suite

Master test suite

Tests naming

Test tree content

Decorators

Suite-level decorators

Explicit decorator declaration

Fixtures

Fixture models

Test case fixture

Test suite entry/exit fixture

Global fixture

Managing test dependencies

Grouping tests into logical units by labels

Enabling or disabling test unit execution

Adding semantic to a test

Summary of the API for declaring and organizing tests

Writing unit tests

Assertion severity level

BOOST_TEST: universal and general purpose assertions

Reported information

Extended comparisons support

Floating point comparison

Strings and C-strings comparison

Collections comparison

Bitwise comparison

Exception correctness

Time-out for test cases

Expected failures specification

Custom predicate support

Output streams testing tool

BOOST_TEST: details on expressions

Debugging the assertions

Summary of the API for writing tests

Controlling outputs

Tools supports for logging

Logging user defined types

Custom messages

Checkpoints for accurate failure location

Contexts

Logging floating point type numbers

Log formats

Test log output

HRF: Human readable log format

XML log format

JUNIT log format

Report formats

Human readable report format

XML based report output format

Logging API

Log output stream redirection

Log level configuration

Predefined log format selection

Custom log format support

Progress display

Summary of the API for controlling the output

Runtime parameters

Test unit filtering

Custom command line arguments

Summary of run-time parameters

Advanced Usage Scenarios

Building the Unit Test Framework

Test module's entry point

Test module's initialization

Test module runner

Header-only variant customizations

Header-only with multiple translation units

Customizing the module's entry point

Customizing the module's initialization function

Static-library variant customizations

Customizing the module's entry point

Customizing the module's initialization function

Shared-library variant customizations

Customizing the module's entry point

Customizing the module's initialization function

The external test runner usage variant

The obsolete initialization function

Practical usage recommendations

General

IDE usage recommendations

Command line usage recommendations

Tutorials

Test driven development with Boost.Test

A testing framework, what for?

Web Wisdom

Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

Change log

Acknowledgements

Unit Test Framework API reference

Tests declaration and organization

BOOST_TEST_CASE and BOOST_TEST_CASE_NAME

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE

BOOST_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE

BOOST_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE_FUNCTION

BOOST_PARAM_TEST_CASE

BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE

BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE_F

BOOST_TEST_SUITE

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END

BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE

BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE

BOOST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE

BOOST_TEST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE

BOOST_TEST_DECORATOR

depends_on (decorator)

description (decorator)

enabled / disabled (decorator)

enable_if (decorator)

fixture (decorator)

label (decorator)

precondition (decorator)

Reference API for writing tests

BOOST_TEST

expected_failures (decorator)

timeout (decorator)

tolerance (decorator)

BOOST_<level>

BOOST_<level>_BITWISE_EQUAL

BOOST_<level>_EQUAL

BOOST_<level>_EQUAL_COLLECTIONS

BOOST_<level>_CLOSE

BOOST_<level>_CLOSE_FRACTION

BOOST_<level>_GE

BOOST_<level>_GT

BOOST_<level>_LE

BOOST_<level>_LT

BOOST_<level>_MESSAGE

BOOST_<level>_NE

BOOST_<level>_PREDICATE

BOOST_<level>_NO_THROW

BOOST_<level>_THROW

BOOST_<level>_EXCEPTION

BOOST_<level>_SMALL

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_EXPECTED_FAILURES

BOOST_ERROR

BOOST_FAIL

BOOST_IS_DEFINED

BOOST_TEST_TOOLS_UNDER_DEBUGGER

BOOST_TEST_TOOLS_DEBUGGABLE

Controlling tests outputs

BOOST_TEST_CHECKPOINT

BOOST_TEST_PASSPOINT

BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE

BOOST_TEST_INFO

BOOST_TEST_CONTEXT

BOOST_TEST_INFO_SCOPE

BOOST_TEST_DONT_PRINT_LOG_VALUE

Runtime parameters reference

auto_start_dbg

build_info

catch_system_errors

color_output

detect_fp_exceptions

detect_memory_leaks

help

list_content

list_labels

log_format

log_level

log_sink

logger

output_format

random

report_format

report_level

report_memory_leaks_to

report_sink

result_code

run_test

save_pattern

show_progress

use_alt_stack

usage

wait_for_debugger

Build scenarios and behaviors

BOOST_TEST_MAIN

BOOST_TEST_MODULE

BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API

BOOST_TEST_NO_LIB

BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK

BOOST_TEST_NO_MAIN

BOOST_TEST_GLOBAL_CONFIGURATION

BOOST_TEST_DISABLE_ALT_STACK

Reference

Header <boost/test/data/config.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/for_each_sample.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/array.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/collection.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/delayed.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/fwd.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/generate.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/generators.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/generators/keywords.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/generators/random.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/generators/xrange.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/grid.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/initializer_list.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/join.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/singleton.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/monomorphic/zip.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/size.hpp>

Header <boost/test/data/test_case.hpp>

Header <boost/test/debug.hpp>

Header <boost/test/debug_config.hpp>

Header <boost/test/detail/global_typedef.hpp>

Header <boost/test/execution_monitor.hpp>

Header <boost/test/framework.hpp>

Header <boost/test/output/compiler_log_formatter.hpp>

Header <boost/test/output/plain_report_formatter.hpp>

Header <boost/test/output/xml_log_formatter.hpp>

Header <boost/test/output/xml_report_formatter.hpp>

Header <boost/test/parameterized_test.hpp>

Header <boost/test/progress_monitor.hpp>

Header <boost/test/results_collector.hpp>

Header <boost/test/results_reporter.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tools/assertion_result.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tools/detail/bitwise_manip.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tools/detail/lexicographic_manip.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tools/detail/per_element_manip.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tools/detail/tolerance_manip.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tools/floating_point_comparison.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tools/output_test_stream.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tree/observer.hpp>

Header <boost/test/tree/test_unit.hpp>

Header <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

Header <boost/test/unit_test_log.hpp>

Header <boost/test/unit_test_log_formatter.hpp>

Header <boost/test/unit_test_parameters.hpp>

Header <boost/test/utils/algorithm.hpp>

Header <boost/test/utils/is_forward_iterable.hpp>

Header <boost/test/utils/named_params.hpp>