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1 # Advanced googletest Topics 2 3 <!-- GOOGLETEST_CM0016 DO NOT DELETE --> 4 5 ## Introduction 6 7 Now that you have read the [googletest Primer](primer.md) and learned how to 8 write tests using googletest, it's time to learn some new tricks. This document 9 will show you more assertions as well as how to construct complex failure 10 messages, propagate fatal failures, reuse and speed up your test fixtures, and 11 use various flags with your tests. 12 13 ## More Assertions 14 15 This section covers some less frequently used, but still significant, 16 assertions. 17 18 ### Explicit Success and Failure 19 20 These three assertions do not actually test a value or expression. Instead, they 21 generate a success or failure directly. Like the macros that actually perform a 22 test, you may stream a custom failure message into them. 23 24 ```c++ 25 SUCCEED(); 26 ``` 27 28 Generates a success. This does **NOT** make the overall test succeed. A test is 29 considered successful only if none of its assertions fail during its execution. 30 31 NOTE: `SUCCEED()` is purely documentary and currently doesn't generate any 32 user-visible output. However, we may add `SUCCEED()` messages to googletest's 33 output in the future. 34 35 ```c++ 36 FAIL(); 37 ADD_FAILURE(); 38 ADD_FAILURE_AT("file_path", line_number); 39 ``` 40 41 `FAIL()` generates a fatal failure, while `ADD_FAILURE()` and `ADD_FAILURE_AT()` 42 generate a nonfatal failure. These are useful when control flow, rather than a 43 Boolean expression, determines the test's success or failure. For example, you 44 might want to write something like: 45 46 ```c++ 47 switch(expression) { 48 case 1: 49 ... some checks ... 50 case 2: 51 ... some other checks ... 52 default: 53 FAIL() << "We shouldn't get here."; 54 } 55 ``` 56 57 NOTE: you can only use `FAIL()` in functions that return `void`. See the 58 [Assertion Placement section](#assertion-placement) for more information. 59 60 ### Exception Assertions 61 62 These are for verifying that a piece of code throws (or does not throw) an 63 exception of the given type: 64 65 Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies 66 ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ | -------- 67 `ASSERT_THROW(statement, exception_type);` | `EXPECT_THROW(statement, exception_type);` | `statement` throws an exception of the given type 68 `ASSERT_ANY_THROW(statement);` | `EXPECT_ANY_THROW(statement);` | `statement` throws an exception of any type 69 `ASSERT_NO_THROW(statement);` | `EXPECT_NO_THROW(statement);` | `statement` doesn't throw any exception 70 71 Examples: 72 73 ```c++ 74 ASSERT_THROW(Foo(5), bar_exception); 75 76 EXPECT_NO_THROW({ 77 int n = 5; 78 Bar(&n); 79 }); 80 ``` 81 82 **Availability**: requires exceptions to be enabled in the build environment 83 84 ### Predicate Assertions for Better Error Messages 85 86 Even though googletest has a rich set of assertions, they can never be complete, 87 as it's impossible (nor a good idea) to anticipate all scenarios a user might 88 run into. Therefore, sometimes a user has to use `EXPECT_TRUE()` to check a 89 complex expression, for lack of a better macro. This has the problem of not 90 showing you the values of the parts of the expression, making it hard to 91 understand what went wrong. As a workaround, some users choose to construct the 92 failure message by themselves, streaming it into `EXPECT_TRUE()`. However, this 93 is awkward especially when the expression has side-effects or is expensive to 94 evaluate. 95 96 googletest gives you three different options to solve this problem: 97 98 #### Using an Existing Boolean Function 99 100 If you already have a function or functor that returns `bool` (or a type that 101 can be implicitly converted to `bool`), you can use it in a *predicate 102 assertion* to get the function arguments printed for free: 103 104 <!-- mdformat off(github rendering does not support multiline tables) --> 105 106 | Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies | 107 | --------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | --------------------------- | 108 | `ASSERT_PRED1(pred1, val1)` | `EXPECT_PRED1(pred1, val1)` | `pred1(val1)` is true | 109 | `ASSERT_PRED2(pred2, val1, val2)` | `EXPECT_PRED2(pred2, val1, val2)` | `pred1(val1, val2)` is true | 110 | `...` | `...` | `...` | 111 112 <!-- mdformat on--> 113 In the above, `predn` is an `n`-ary predicate function or functor, where `val1`, 114 `val2`, ..., and `valn` are its arguments. The assertion succeeds if the 115 predicate returns `true` when applied to the given arguments, and fails 116 otherwise. When the assertion fails, it prints the value of each argument. In 117 either case, the arguments are evaluated exactly once. 118 119 Here's an example. Given 120 121 ```c++ 122 // Returns true if m and n have no common divisors except 1. 123 bool MutuallyPrime(int m, int n) { ... } 124 125 const int a = 3; 126 const int b = 4; 127 const int c = 10; 128 ``` 129 130 the assertion 131 132 ```c++ 133 EXPECT_PRED2(MutuallyPrime, a, b); 134 ``` 135 136 will succeed, while the assertion 137 138 ```c++ 139 EXPECT_PRED2(MutuallyPrime, b, c); 140 ``` 141 142 will fail with the message 143 144 ```none 145 MutuallyPrime(b, c) is false, where 146 b is 4 147 c is 10 148 ``` 149 150 > NOTE: 151 > 152 > 1. If you see a compiler error "no matching function to call" when using 153 > `ASSERT_PRED*` or `EXPECT_PRED*`, please see 154 > [this](faq.md#the-compiler-complains-no-matching-function-to-call-when-i-use-assert-pred-how-do-i-fix-it) 155 > for how to resolve it. 156 157 #### Using a Function That Returns an AssertionResult 158 159 While `EXPECT_PRED*()` and friends are handy for a quick job, the syntax is not 160 satisfactory: you have to use different macros for different arities, and it 161 feels more like Lisp than C++. The `::testing::AssertionResult` class solves 162 this problem. 163 164 An `AssertionResult` object represents the result of an assertion (whether it's 165 a success or a failure, and an associated message). You can create an 166 `AssertionResult` using one of these factory functions: 167 168 ```c++ 169 namespace testing { 170 171 // Returns an AssertionResult object to indicate that an assertion has 172 // succeeded. 173 AssertionResult AssertionSuccess(); 174 175 // Returns an AssertionResult object to indicate that an assertion has 176 // failed. 177 AssertionResult AssertionFailure(); 178 179 } 180 ``` 181 182 You can then use the `<<` operator to stream messages to the `AssertionResult` 183 object. 184 185 To provide more readable messages in Boolean assertions (e.g. `EXPECT_TRUE()`), 186 write a predicate function that returns `AssertionResult` instead of `bool`. For 187 example, if you define `IsEven()` as: 188 189 ```c++ 190 ::testing::AssertionResult IsEven(int n) { 191 if ((n % 2) == 0) 192 return ::testing::AssertionSuccess(); 193 else 194 return ::testing::AssertionFailure() << n << " is odd"; 195 } 196 ``` 197 198 instead of: 199 200 ```c++ 201 bool IsEven(int n) { 202 return (n % 2) == 0; 203 } 204 ``` 205 206 the failed assertion `EXPECT_TRUE(IsEven(Fib(4)))` will print: 207 208 ```none 209 Value of: IsEven(Fib(4)) 210 Actual: false (3 is odd) 211 Expected: true 212 ``` 213 214 instead of a more opaque 215 216 ```none 217 Value of: IsEven(Fib(4)) 218 Actual: false 219 Expected: true 220 ``` 221 222 If you want informative messages in `EXPECT_FALSE` and `ASSERT_FALSE` as well 223 (one third of Boolean assertions in the Google code base are negative ones), and 224 are fine with making the predicate slower in the success case, you can supply a 225 success message: 226 227 ```c++ 228 ::testing::AssertionResult IsEven(int n) { 229 if ((n % 2) == 0) 230 return ::testing::AssertionSuccess() << n << " is even"; 231 else 232 return ::testing::AssertionFailure() << n << " is odd"; 233 } 234 ``` 235 236 Then the statement `EXPECT_FALSE(IsEven(Fib(6)))` will print 237 238 ```none 239 Value of: IsEven(Fib(6)) 240 Actual: true (8 is even) 241 Expected: false 242 ``` 243 244 #### Using a Predicate-Formatter 245 246 If you find the default message generated by `(ASSERT|EXPECT)_PRED*` and 247 `(ASSERT|EXPECT)_(TRUE|FALSE)` unsatisfactory, or some arguments to your 248 predicate do not support streaming to `ostream`, you can instead use the 249 following *predicate-formatter assertions* to *fully* customize how the message 250 is formatted: 251 252 Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies 253 ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | -------- 254 `ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT1(pred_format1, val1);` | `EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT1(pred_format1, val1);` | `pred_format1(val1)` is successful 255 `ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT2(pred_format2, val1, val2);` | `EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(pred_format2, val1, val2);` | `pred_format2(val1, val2)` is successful 256 `...` | `...` | ... 257 258 The difference between this and the previous group of macros is that instead of 259 a predicate, `(ASSERT|EXPECT)_PRED_FORMAT*` take a *predicate-formatter* 260 (`pred_formatn`), which is a function or functor with the signature: 261 262 ```c++ 263 ::testing::AssertionResult PredicateFormattern(const char* expr1, 264 const char* expr2, 265 ... 266 const char* exprn, 267 T1 val1, 268 T2 val2, 269 ... 270 Tn valn); 271 ``` 272 273 where `val1`, `val2`, ..., and `valn` are the values of the predicate arguments, 274 and `expr1`, `expr2`, ..., and `exprn` are the corresponding expressions as they 275 appear in the source code. The types `T1`, `T2`, ..., and `Tn` can be either 276 value types or reference types. For example, if an argument has type `Foo`, you 277 can declare it as either `Foo` or `const Foo&`, whichever is appropriate. 278 279 As an example, let's improve the failure message in `MutuallyPrime()`, which was 280 used with `EXPECT_PRED2()`: 281 282 ```c++ 283 // Returns the smallest prime common divisor of m and n, 284 // or 1 when m and n are mutually prime. 285 int SmallestPrimeCommonDivisor(int m, int n) { ... } 286 287 // A predicate-formatter for asserting that two integers are mutually prime. 288 ::testing::AssertionResult AssertMutuallyPrime(const char* m_expr, 289 const char* n_expr, 290 int m, 291 int n) { 292 if (MutuallyPrime(m, n)) return ::testing::AssertionSuccess(); 293 294 return ::testing::AssertionFailure() << m_expr << " and " << n_expr 295 << " (" << m << " and " << n << ") are not mutually prime, " 296 << "as they have a common divisor " << SmallestPrimeCommonDivisor(m, n); 297 } 298 ``` 299 300 With this predicate-formatter, we can use 301 302 ```c++ 303 EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(AssertMutuallyPrime, b, c); 304 ``` 305 306 to generate the message 307 308 ```none 309 b and c (4 and 10) are not mutually prime, as they have a common divisor 2. 310 ``` 311 312 As you may have realized, many of the built-in assertions we introduced earlier 313 are special cases of `(EXPECT|ASSERT)_PRED_FORMAT*`. In fact, most of them are 314 indeed defined using `(EXPECT|ASSERT)_PRED_FORMAT*`. 315 316 ### Floating-Point Comparison 317 318 Comparing floating-point numbers is tricky. Due to round-off errors, it is very 319 unlikely that two floating-points will match exactly. Therefore, `ASSERT_EQ` 's 320 naive comparison usually doesn't work. And since floating-points can have a wide 321 value range, no single fixed error bound works. It's better to compare by a 322 fixed relative error bound, except for values close to 0 due to the loss of 323 precision there. 324 325 In general, for floating-point comparison to make sense, the user needs to 326 carefully choose the error bound. If they don't want or care to, comparing in 327 terms of Units in the Last Place (ULPs) is a good default, and googletest 328 provides assertions to do this. Full details about ULPs are quite long; if you 329 want to learn more, see 330 [here](https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-floating-point-numbers-2012-edition/). 331 332 #### Floating-Point Macros 333 334 <!-- mdformat off(github rendering does not support multiline tables) --> 335 336 | Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies | 337 | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | 338 | `ASSERT_FLOAT_EQ(val1, val2);` | `EXPECT_FLOAT_EQ(val1, val2);` | the two `float` values are almost equal | 339 | `ASSERT_DOUBLE_EQ(val1, val2);` | `EXPECT_DOUBLE_EQ(val1, val2);` | the two `double` values are almost equal | 340 341 <!-- mdformat on--> 342 343 By "almost equal" we mean the values are within 4 ULP's from each other. 344 345 The following assertions allow you to choose the acceptable error bound: 346 347 <!-- mdformat off(github rendering does not support multiline tables) --> 348 349 | Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies | 350 | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 351 | `ASSERT_NEAR(val1, val2, abs_error);` | `EXPECT_NEAR(val1, val2, abs_error);` | the difference between `val1` and `val2` doesn't exceed the given absolute error | 352 353 <!-- mdformat on--> 354 355 #### Floating-Point Predicate-Format Functions 356 357 Some floating-point operations are useful, but not that often used. In order to 358 avoid an explosion of new macros, we provide them as predicate-format functions 359 that can be used in predicate assertion macros (e.g. `EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2`, 360 etc). 361 362 ```c++ 363 EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(::testing::FloatLE, val1, val2); 364 EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(::testing::DoubleLE, val1, val2); 365 ``` 366 367 Verifies that `val1` is less than, or almost equal to, `val2`. You can replace 368 `EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2` in the above table with `ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT2`. 369 370 ### Asserting Using gMock Matchers 371 372 [gMock](../../googlemock) comes with a library of matchers for validating 373 arguments passed to mock objects. A gMock *matcher* is basically a predicate 374 that knows how to describe itself. It can be used in these assertion macros: 375 376 <!-- mdformat off(github rendering does not support multiline tables) --> 377 378 | Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies | 379 | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------ | --------------------- | 380 | `ASSERT_THAT(value, matcher);` | `EXPECT_THAT(value, matcher);` | value matches matcher | 381 382 <!-- mdformat on--> 383 384 For example, `StartsWith(prefix)` is a matcher that matches a string starting 385 with `prefix`, and you can write: 386 387 ```c++ 388 using ::testing::StartsWith; 389 ... 390 // Verifies that Foo() returns a string starting with "Hello". 391 EXPECT_THAT(Foo(), StartsWith("Hello")); 392 ``` 393 394 Read this 395 [recipe](../../googlemock/docs/cook_book.md#using-matchers-in-googletest-assertions) 396 in the gMock Cookbook for more details. 397 398 gMock has a rich set of matchers. You can do many things googletest cannot do 399 alone with them. For a list of matchers gMock provides, read 400 [this](../../googlemock/docs/cook_book.md##using-matchers). It's easy to write 401 your [own matchers](../../googlemock/docs/cook_book.md#NewMatchers) too. 402 403 gMock is bundled with googletest, so you don't need to add any build dependency 404 in order to take advantage of this. Just include `"testing/base/public/gmock.h"` 405 and you're ready to go. 406 407 ### More String Assertions 408 409 (Please read the [previous](#asserting-using-gmock-matchers) section first if 410 you haven't.) 411 412 You can use the gMock 413 [string matchers](../../googlemock/docs/cheat_sheet.md#string-matchers) with 414 `EXPECT_THAT()` or `ASSERT_THAT()` to do more string comparison tricks 415 (sub-string, prefix, suffix, regular expression, and etc). For example, 416 417 ```c++ 418 using ::testing::HasSubstr; 419 using ::testing::MatchesRegex; 420 ... 421 ASSERT_THAT(foo_string, HasSubstr("needle")); 422 EXPECT_THAT(bar_string, MatchesRegex("\\w*\\d+")); 423 ``` 424 425 If the string contains a well-formed HTML or XML document, you can check whether 426 its DOM tree matches an 427 [XPath expression](http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#contents): 428 429 ```c++ 430 // Currently still in //template/prototemplate/testing:xpath_matcher 431 #include "template/prototemplate/testing/xpath_matcher.h" 432 using prototemplate::testing::MatchesXPath; 433 EXPECT_THAT(html_string, MatchesXPath("//a[text()='click here']")); 434 ``` 435 436 ### Windows HRESULT assertions 437 438 These assertions test for `HRESULT` success or failure. 439 440 Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies 441 -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | -------- 442 `ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(expression)` | `EXPECT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(expression)` | `expression` is a success `HRESULT` 443 `ASSERT_HRESULT_FAILED(expression)` | `EXPECT_HRESULT_FAILED(expression)` | `expression` is a failure `HRESULT` 444 445 The generated output contains the human-readable error message associated with 446 the `HRESULT` code returned by `expression`. 447 448 You might use them like this: 449 450 ```c++ 451 CComPtr<IShellDispatch2> shell; 452 ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(shell.CoCreateInstance(L"Shell.Application")); 453 CComVariant empty; 454 ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(shell->ShellExecute(CComBSTR(url), empty, empty, empty, empty)); 455 ``` 456 457 ### Type Assertions 458 459 You can call the function 460 461 ```c++ 462 ::testing::StaticAssertTypeEq<T1, T2>(); 463 ``` 464 465 to assert that types `T1` and `T2` are the same. The function does nothing if 466 the assertion is satisfied. If the types are different, the function call will 467 fail to compile, the compiler error message will say that 468 `type1 and type2 are not the same type` and most likely (depending on the compiler) 469 show you the actual values of `T1` and `T2`. This is mainly useful inside 470 template code. 471 472 **Caveat**: When used inside a member function of a class template or a function 473 template, `StaticAssertTypeEq<T1, T2>()` is effective only if the function is 474 instantiated. For example, given: 475 476 ```c++ 477 template <typename T> class Foo { 478 public: 479 void Bar() { ::testing::StaticAssertTypeEq<int, T>(); } 480 }; 481 ``` 482 483 the code: 484 485 ```c++ 486 void Test1() { Foo<bool> foo; } 487 ``` 488 489 will not generate a compiler error, as `Foo<bool>::Bar()` is never actually 490 instantiated. Instead, you need: 491 492 ```c++ 493 void Test2() { Foo<bool> foo; foo.Bar(); } 494 ``` 495 496 to cause a compiler error. 497 498 ### Assertion Placement 499 500 You can use assertions in any C++ function. In particular, it doesn't have to be 501 a method of the test fixture class. The one constraint is that assertions that 502 generate a fatal failure (`FAIL*` and `ASSERT_*`) can only be used in 503 void-returning functions. This is a consequence of Google's not using 504 exceptions. By placing it in a non-void function you'll get a confusing compile 505 error like `"error: void value not ignored as it ought to be"` or `"cannot 506 initialize return object of type 'bool' with an rvalue of type 'void'"` or 507 `"error: no viable conversion from 'void' to 'string'"`. 508 509 If you need to use fatal assertions in a function that returns non-void, one 510 option is to make the function return the value in an out parameter instead. For 511 example, you can rewrite `T2 Foo(T1 x)` to `void Foo(T1 x, T2* result)`. You 512 need to make sure that `*result` contains some sensible value even when the 513 function returns prematurely. As the function now returns `void`, you can use 514 any assertion inside of it. 515 516 If changing the function's type is not an option, you should just use assertions 517 that generate non-fatal failures, such as `ADD_FAILURE*` and `EXPECT_*`. 518 519 NOTE: Constructors and destructors are not considered void-returning functions, 520 according to the C++ language specification, and so you may not use fatal 521 assertions in them; you'll get a compilation error if you try. Instead, either 522 call `abort` and crash the entire test executable, or put the fatal assertion in 523 a `SetUp`/`TearDown` function; see 524 [constructor/destructor vs. `SetUp`/`TearDown`](faq.md#CtorVsSetUp) 525 526 WARNING: A fatal assertion in a helper function (private void-returning method) 527 called from a constructor or destructor does not does not terminate the current 528 test, as your intuition might suggest: it merely returns from the constructor or 529 destructor early, possibly leaving your object in a partially-constructed or 530 partially-destructed state! You almost certainly want to `abort` or use 531 `SetUp`/`TearDown` instead. 532 533 ## Teaching googletest How to Print Your Values 534 535 When a test assertion such as `EXPECT_EQ` fails, googletest prints the argument 536 values to help you debug. It does this using a user-extensible value printer. 537 538 This printer knows how to print built-in C++ types, native arrays, STL 539 containers, and any type that supports the `<<` operator. For other types, it 540 prints the raw bytes in the value and hopes that you the user can figure it out. 541 542 As mentioned earlier, the printer is *extensible*. That means you can teach it 543 to do a better job at printing your particular type than to dump the bytes. To 544 do that, define `<<` for your type: 545 546 ```c++ 547 #include <ostream> 548 549 namespace foo { 550 551 class Bar { // We want googletest to be able to print instances of this. 552 ... 553 // Create a free inline friend function. 554 friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const Bar& bar) { 555 return os << bar.DebugString(); // whatever needed to print bar to os 556 } 557 }; 558 559 // If you can't declare the function in the class it's important that the 560 // << operator is defined in the SAME namespace that defines Bar. C++'s look-up 561 // rules rely on that. 562 std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const Bar& bar) { 563 return os << bar.DebugString(); // whatever needed to print bar to os 564 } 565 566 } // namespace foo 567 ``` 568 569 Sometimes, this might not be an option: your team may consider it bad style to 570 have a `<<` operator for `Bar`, or `Bar` may already have a `<<` operator that 571 doesn't do what you want (and you cannot change it). If so, you can instead 572 define a `PrintTo()` function like this: 573 574 ```c++ 575 #include <ostream> 576 577 namespace foo { 578 579 class Bar { 580 ... 581 friend void PrintTo(const Bar& bar, std::ostream* os) { 582 *os << bar.DebugString(); // whatever needed to print bar to os 583 } 584 }; 585 586 // If you can't declare the function in the class it's important that PrintTo() 587 // is defined in the SAME namespace that defines Bar. C++'s look-up rules rely 588 // on that. 589 void PrintTo(const Bar& bar, std::ostream* os) { 590 *os << bar.DebugString(); // whatever needed to print bar to os 591 } 592 593 } // namespace foo 594 ``` 595 596 If you have defined both `<<` and `PrintTo()`, the latter will be used when 597 googletest is concerned. This allows you to customize how the value appears in 598 googletest's output without affecting code that relies on the behavior of its 599 `<<` operator. 600 601 If you want to print a value `x` using googletest's value printer yourself, just 602 call `::testing::PrintToString(x)`, which returns an `std::string`: 603 604 ```c++ 605 vector<pair<Bar, int> > bar_ints = GetBarIntVector(); 606 607 EXPECT_TRUE(IsCorrectBarIntVector(bar_ints)) 608 << "bar_ints = " << ::testing::PrintToString(bar_ints); 609 ``` 610 611 ## Death Tests 612 613 In many applications, there are assertions that can cause application failure if 614 a condition is not met. These sanity checks, which ensure that the program is in 615 a known good state, are there to fail at the earliest possible time after some 616 program state is corrupted. If the assertion checks the wrong condition, then 617 the program may proceed in an erroneous state, which could lead to memory 618 corruption, security holes, or worse. Hence it is vitally important to test that 619 such assertion statements work as expected. 620 621 Since these precondition checks cause the processes to die, we call such tests 622 _death tests_. More generally, any test that checks that a program terminates 623 (except by throwing an exception) in an expected fashion is also a death test. 624 625 Note that if a piece of code throws an exception, we don't consider it "death" 626 for the purpose of death tests, as the caller of the code could catch the 627 exception and avoid the crash. If you want to verify exceptions thrown by your 628 code, see [Exception Assertions](#ExceptionAssertions). 629 630 If you want to test `EXPECT_*()/ASSERT_*()` failures in your test code, see 631 Catching Failures 632 633 ### How to Write a Death Test 634 635 googletest has the following macros to support death tests: 636 637 Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies 638 ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | -------- 639 `ASSERT_DEATH(statement, matcher);` | `EXPECT_DEATH(statement, matcher);` | `statement` crashes with the given error 640 `ASSERT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(statement, matcher);` | `EXPECT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(statement, matcher);` | if death tests are supported, verifies that `statement` crashes with the given error; otherwise verifies nothing 641 `ASSERT_EXIT(statement, predicate, matcher);` | `EXPECT_EXIT(statement, predicate, matcher);` | `statement` exits with the given error, and its exit code matches `predicate` 642 643 where `statement` is a statement that is expected to cause the process to die, 644 `predicate` is a function or function object that evaluates an integer exit 645 status, and `matcher` is either a GMock matcher matching a `const std::string&` 646 or a (Perl) regular expression - either of which is matched against the stderr 647 output of `statement`. For legacy reasons, a bare string (i.e. with no matcher) 648 is interpreted as `ContainsRegex(str)`, **not** `Eq(str)`. Note that `statement` 649 can be *any valid statement* (including *compound statement*) and doesn't have 650 to be an expression. 651 652 As usual, the `ASSERT` variants abort the current test function, while the 653 `EXPECT` variants do not. 654 655 > NOTE: We use the word "crash" here to mean that the process terminates with a 656 > *non-zero* exit status code. There are two possibilities: either the process 657 > has called `exit()` or `_exit()` with a non-zero value, or it may be killed by 658 > a signal. 659 > 660 > This means that if `*statement*` terminates the process with a 0 exit code, it 661 > is *not* considered a crash by `EXPECT_DEATH`. Use `EXPECT_EXIT` instead if 662 > this is the case, or if you want to restrict the exit code more precisely. 663 664 A predicate here must accept an `int` and return a `bool`. The death test 665 succeeds only if the predicate returns `true`. googletest defines a few 666 predicates that handle the most common cases: 667 668 ```c++ 669 ::testing::ExitedWithCode(exit_code) 670 ``` 671 672 This expression is `true` if the program exited normally with the given exit 673 code. 674 675 ```c++ 676 ::testing::KilledBySignal(signal_number) // Not available on Windows. 677 ``` 678 679 This expression is `true` if the program was killed by the given signal. 680 681 The `*_DEATH` macros are convenient wrappers for `*_EXIT` that use a predicate 682 that verifies the process' exit code is non-zero. 683 684 Note that a death test only cares about three things: 685 686 1. does `statement` abort or exit the process? 687 2. (in the case of `ASSERT_EXIT` and `EXPECT_EXIT`) does the exit status 688 satisfy `predicate`? Or (in the case of `ASSERT_DEATH` and `EXPECT_DEATH`) 689 is the exit status non-zero? And 690 3. does the stderr output match `regex`? 691 692 In particular, if `statement` generates an `ASSERT_*` or `EXPECT_*` failure, it 693 will **not** cause the death test to fail, as googletest assertions don't abort 694 the process. 695 696 To write a death test, simply use one of the above macros inside your test 697 function. For example, 698 699 ```c++ 700 TEST(MyDeathTest, Foo) { 701 // This death test uses a compound statement. 702 ASSERT_DEATH({ 703 int n = 5; 704 Foo(&n); 705 }, "Error on line .* of Foo()"); 706 } 707 708 TEST(MyDeathTest, NormalExit) { 709 EXPECT_EXIT(NormalExit(), ::testing::ExitedWithCode(0), "Success"); 710 } 711 712 TEST(MyDeathTest, KillMyself) { 713 EXPECT_EXIT(KillMyself(), ::testing::KilledBySignal(SIGKILL), 714 "Sending myself unblockable signal"); 715 } 716 ``` 717 718 verifies that: 719 720 * calling `Foo(5)` causes the process to die with the given error message, 721 * calling `NormalExit()` causes the process to print `"Success"` to stderr and 722 exit with exit code 0, and 723 * calling `KillMyself()` kills the process with signal `SIGKILL`. 724 725 The test function body may contain other assertions and statements as well, if 726 necessary. 727 728 ### Death Test Naming 729 730 IMPORTANT: We strongly recommend you to follow the convention of naming your 731 **test suite** (not test) `*DeathTest` when it contains a death test, as 732 demonstrated in the above example. The 733 [Death Tests And Threads](#death-tests-and-threads) section below explains why. 734 735 If a test fixture class is shared by normal tests and death tests, you can use 736 `using` or `typedef` to introduce an alias for the fixture class and avoid 737 duplicating its code: 738 739 ```c++ 740 class FooTest : public ::testing::Test { ... }; 741 742 using FooDeathTest = FooTest; 743 744 TEST_F(FooTest, DoesThis) { 745 // normal test 746 } 747 748 TEST_F(FooDeathTest, DoesThat) { 749 // death test 750 } 751 ``` 752 753 ### Regular Expression Syntax 754 755 On POSIX systems (e.g. Linux, Cygwin, and Mac), googletest uses the 756 [POSIX extended regular expression](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_04) 757 syntax. To learn about this syntax, you may want to read this 758 [Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#POSIX_Extended_Regular_Expressions). 759 760 On Windows, googletest uses its own simple regular expression implementation. It 761 lacks many features. For example, we don't support union (`"x|y"`), grouping 762 (`"(xy)"`), brackets (`"[xy]"`), and repetition count (`"x{5,7}"`), among 763 others. Below is what we do support (`A` denotes a literal character, period 764 (`.`), or a single `\\ ` escape sequence; `x` and `y` denote regular 765 expressions.): 766 767 Expression | Meaning 768 ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- 769 `c` | matches any literal character `c` 770 `\\d` | matches any decimal digit 771 `\\D` | matches any character that's not a decimal digit 772 `\\f` | matches `\f` 773 `\\n` | matches `\n` 774 `\\r` | matches `\r` 775 `\\s` | matches any ASCII whitespace, including `\n` 776 `\\S` | matches any character that's not a whitespace 777 `\\t` | matches `\t` 778 `\\v` | matches `\v` 779 `\\w` | matches any letter, `_`, or decimal digit 780 `\\W` | matches any character that `\\w` doesn't match 781 `\\c` | matches any literal character `c`, which must be a punctuation 782 `.` | matches any single character except `\n` 783 `A?` | matches 0 or 1 occurrences of `A` 784 `A*` | matches 0 or many occurrences of `A` 785 `A+` | matches 1 or many occurrences of `A` 786 `^` | matches the beginning of a string (not that of each line) 787 `$` | matches the end of a string (not that of each line) 788 `xy` | matches `x` followed by `y` 789 790 To help you determine which capability is available on your system, googletest 791 defines macros to govern which regular expression it is using. The macros are: 792 `GTEST_USES_SIMPLE_RE=1` or `GTEST_USES_POSIX_RE=1`. If you want your death 793 tests to work in all cases, you can either `#if` on these macros or use the more 794 limited syntax only. 795 796 ### How It Works 797 798 Under the hood, `ASSERT_EXIT()` spawns a new process and executes the death test 799 statement in that process. The details of how precisely that happens depend on 800 the platform and the variable ::testing::GTEST_FLAG(death_test_style) (which is 801 initialized from the command-line flag `--gtest_death_test_style`). 802 803 * On POSIX systems, `fork()` (or `clone()` on Linux) is used to spawn the 804 child, after which: 805 * If the variable's value is `"fast"`, the death test statement is 806 immediately executed. 807 * If the variable's value is `"threadsafe"`, the child process re-executes 808 the unit test binary just as it was originally invoked, but with some 809 extra flags to cause just the single death test under consideration to 810 be run. 811 * On Windows, the child is spawned using the `CreateProcess()` API, and 812 re-executes the binary to cause just the single death test under 813 consideration to be run - much like the `threadsafe` mode on POSIX. 814 815 Other values for the variable are illegal and will cause the death test to fail. 816 Currently, the flag's default value is **"fast"** 817 818 1. the child's exit status satisfies the predicate, and 819 2. the child's stderr matches the regular expression. 820 821 If the death test statement runs to completion without dying, the child process 822 will nonetheless terminate, and the assertion fails. 823 824 ### Death Tests And Threads 825 826 The reason for the two death test styles has to do with thread safety. Due to 827 well-known problems with forking in the presence of threads, death tests should 828 be run in a single-threaded context. Sometimes, however, it isn't feasible to 829 arrange that kind of environment. For example, statically-initialized modules 830 may start threads before main is ever reached. Once threads have been created, 831 it may be difficult or impossible to clean them up. 832 833 googletest has three features intended to raise awareness of threading issues. 834 835 1. A warning is emitted if multiple threads are running when a death test is 836 encountered. 837 2. Test suites with a name ending in "DeathTest" are run before all other 838 tests. 839 3. It uses `clone()` instead of `fork()` to spawn the child process on Linux 840 (`clone()` is not available on Cygwin and Mac), as `fork()` is more likely 841 to cause the child to hang when the parent process has multiple threads. 842 843 It's perfectly fine to create threads inside a death test statement; they are 844 executed in a separate process and cannot affect the parent. 845 846 ### Death Test Styles 847 848 The "threadsafe" death test style was introduced in order to help mitigate the 849 risks of testing in a possibly multithreaded environment. It trades increased 850 test execution time (potentially dramatically so) for improved thread safety. 851 852 The automated testing framework does not set the style flag. You can choose a 853 particular style of death tests by setting the flag programmatically: 854 855 ```c++ 856 testing::FLAGS_gtest_death_test_style="threadsafe" 857 ``` 858 859 You can do this in `main()` to set the style for all death tests in the binary, 860 or in individual tests. Recall that flags are saved before running each test and 861 restored afterwards, so you need not do that yourself. For example: 862 863 ```c++ 864 int main(int argc, char** argv) { 865 InitGoogle(argv[0], &argc, &argv, true); 866 ::testing::FLAGS_gtest_death_test_style = "fast"; 867 return RUN_ALL_TESTS(); 868 } 869 870 TEST(MyDeathTest, TestOne) { 871 ::testing::FLAGS_gtest_death_test_style = "threadsafe"; 872 // This test is run in the "threadsafe" style: 873 ASSERT_DEATH(ThisShouldDie(), ""); 874 } 875 876 TEST(MyDeathTest, TestTwo) { 877 // This test is run in the "fast" style: 878 ASSERT_DEATH(ThisShouldDie(), ""); 879 } 880 ``` 881 882 ### Caveats 883 884 The `statement` argument of `ASSERT_EXIT()` can be any valid C++ statement. If 885 it leaves the current function via a `return` statement or by throwing an 886 exception, the death test is considered to have failed. Some googletest macros 887 may return from the current function (e.g. `ASSERT_TRUE()`), so be sure to avoid 888 them in `statement`. 889 890 Since `statement` runs in the child process, any in-memory side effect (e.g. 891 modifying a variable, releasing memory, etc) it causes will *not* be observable 892 in the parent process. In particular, if you release memory in a death test, 893 your program will fail the heap check as the parent process will never see the 894 memory reclaimed. To solve this problem, you can 895 896 1. try not to free memory in a death test; 897 2. free the memory again in the parent process; or 898 3. do not use the heap checker in your program. 899 900 Due to an implementation detail, you cannot place multiple death test assertions 901 on the same line; otherwise, compilation will fail with an unobvious error 902 message. 903 904 Despite the improved thread safety afforded by the "threadsafe" style of death 905 test, thread problems such as deadlock are still possible in the presence of 906 handlers registered with `pthread_atfork(3)`. 907 908 909 ## Using Assertions in Sub-routines 910 911 ### Adding Traces to Assertions 912 913 If a test sub-routine is called from several places, when an assertion inside it 914 fails, it can be hard to tell which invocation of the sub-routine the failure is 915 from. You can alleviate this problem using extra logging or custom failure 916 messages, but that usually clutters up your tests. A better solution is to use 917 the `SCOPED_TRACE` macro or the `ScopedTrace` utility: 918 919 ```c++ 920 SCOPED_TRACE(message); 921 ScopedTrace trace("file_path", line_number, message); 922 ``` 923 924 where `message` can be anything streamable to `std::ostream`. `SCOPED_TRACE` 925 macro will cause the current file name, line number, and the given message to be 926 added in every failure message. `ScopedTrace` accepts explicit file name and 927 line number in arguments, which is useful for writing test helpers. The effect 928 will be undone when the control leaves the current lexical scope. 929 930 For example, 931 932 ```c++ 933 10: void Sub1(int n) { 934 11: EXPECT_EQ(Bar(n), 1); 935 12: EXPECT_EQ(Bar(n + 1), 2); 936 13: } 937 14: 938 15: TEST(FooTest, Bar) { 939 16: { 940 17: SCOPED_TRACE("A"); // This trace point will be included in 941 18: // every failure in this scope. 942 19: Sub1(1); 943 20: } 944 21: // Now it won't. 945 22: Sub1(9); 946 23: } 947 ``` 948 949 could result in messages like these: 950 951 ```none 952 path/to/foo_test.cc:11: Failure 953 Value of: Bar(n) 954 Expected: 1 955 Actual: 2 956 Trace: 957 path/to/foo_test.cc:17: A 958 959 path/to/foo_test.cc:12: Failure 960 Value of: Bar(n + 1) 961 Expected: 2 962 Actual: 3 963 ``` 964 965 Without the trace, it would've been difficult to know which invocation of 966 `Sub1()` the two failures come from respectively. (You could add an extra 967 message to each assertion in `Sub1()` to indicate the value of `n`, but that's 968 tedious.) 969 970 Some tips on using `SCOPED_TRACE`: 971 972 1. With a suitable message, it's often enough to use `SCOPED_TRACE` at the 973 beginning of a sub-routine, instead of at each call site. 974 2. When calling sub-routines inside a loop, make the loop iterator part of the 975 message in `SCOPED_TRACE` such that you can know which iteration the failure 976 is from. 977 3. Sometimes the line number of the trace point is enough for identifying the 978 particular invocation of a sub-routine. In this case, you don't have to 979 choose a unique message for `SCOPED_TRACE`. You can simply use `""`. 980 4. You can use `SCOPED_TRACE` in an inner scope when there is one in the outer 981 scope. In this case, all active trace points will be included in the failure 982 messages, in reverse order they are encountered. 983 5. The trace dump is clickable in Emacs - hit `return` on a line number and 984 you'll be taken to that line in the source file! 985 986 ### Propagating Fatal Failures 987 988 A common pitfall when using `ASSERT_*` and `FAIL*` is not understanding that 989 when they fail they only abort the _current function_, not the entire test. For 990 example, the following test will segfault: 991 992 ```c++ 993 void Subroutine() { 994 // Generates a fatal failure and aborts the current function. 995 ASSERT_EQ(1, 2); 996 997 // The following won't be executed. 998 ... 999 } 1000 1001 TEST(FooTest, Bar) { 1002 Subroutine(); // The intended behavior is for the fatal failure 1003 // in Subroutine() to abort the entire test. 1004 1005 // The actual behavior: the function goes on after Subroutine() returns. 1006 int* p = NULL; 1007 *p = 3; // Segfault! 1008 } 1009 ``` 1010 1011 To alleviate this, googletest provides three different solutions. You could use 1012 either exceptions, the `(ASSERT|EXPECT)_NO_FATAL_FAILURE` assertions or the 1013 `HasFatalFailure()` function. They are described in the following two 1014 subsections. 1015 1016 #### Asserting on Subroutines with an exception 1017 1018 The following code can turn ASSERT-failure into an exception: 1019 1020 ```c++ 1021 class ThrowListener : public testing::EmptyTestEventListener { 1022 void OnTestPartResult(const testing::TestPartResult& result) override { 1023 if (result.type() == testing::TestPartResult::kFatalFailure) { 1024 throw testing::AssertionException(result); 1025 } 1026 } 1027 }; 1028 int main(int argc, char** argv) { 1029 ... 1030 testing::UnitTest::GetInstance()->listeners().Append(new ThrowListener); 1031 return RUN_ALL_TESTS(); 1032 } 1033 ``` 1034 1035 This listener should be added after other listeners if you have any, otherwise 1036 they won't see failed `OnTestPartResult`. 1037 1038 #### Asserting on Subroutines 1039 1040 As shown above, if your test calls a subroutine that has an `ASSERT_*` failure 1041 in it, the test will continue after the subroutine returns. This may not be what 1042 you want. 1043 1044 Often people want fatal failures to propagate like exceptions. For that 1045 googletest offers the following macros: 1046 1047 Fatal assertion | Nonfatal assertion | Verifies 1048 ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | -------- 1049 `ASSERT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE(statement);` | `EXPECT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE(statement);` | `statement` doesn't generate any new fatal failures in the current thread. 1050 1051 Only failures in the thread that executes the assertion are checked to determine 1052 the result of this type of assertions. If `statement` creates new threads, 1053 failures in these threads are ignored. 1054 1055 Examples: 1056 1057 ```c++ 1058 ASSERT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE(Foo()); 1059 1060 int i; 1061 EXPECT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE({ 1062 i = Bar(); 1063 }); 1064 ``` 1065 1066 Assertions from multiple threads are currently not supported on Windows. 1067 1068 #### Checking for Failures in the Current Test 1069 1070 `HasFatalFailure()` in the `::testing::Test` class returns `true` if an 1071 assertion in the current test has suffered a fatal failure. This allows 1072 functions to catch fatal failures in a sub-routine and return early. 1073 1074 ```c++ 1075 class Test { 1076 public: 1077 ... 1078 static bool HasFatalFailure(); 1079 }; 1080 ``` 1081 1082 The typical usage, which basically simulates the behavior of a thrown exception, 1083 is: 1084 1085 ```c++ 1086 TEST(FooTest, Bar) { 1087 Subroutine(); 1088 // Aborts if Subroutine() had a fatal failure. 1089 if (HasFatalFailure()) return; 1090 1091 // The following won't be executed. 1092 ... 1093 } 1094 ``` 1095 1096 If `HasFatalFailure()` is used outside of `TEST()` , `TEST_F()` , or a test 1097 fixture, you must add the `::testing::Test::` prefix, as in: 1098 1099 ```c++ 1100 if (::testing::Test::HasFatalFailure()) return; 1101 ``` 1102 1103 Similarly, `HasNonfatalFailure()` returns `true` if the current test has at 1104 least one non-fatal failure, and `HasFailure()` returns `true` if the current 1105 test has at least one failure of either kind. 1106 1107 ## Logging Additional Information 1108 1109 In your test code, you can call `RecordProperty("key", value)` to log additional 1110 information, where `value` can be either a string or an `int`. The *last* value 1111 recorded for a key will be emitted to the 1112 [XML output](#generating-an-xml-report) if you specify one. For example, the 1113 test 1114 1115 ```c++ 1116 TEST_F(WidgetUsageTest, MinAndMaxWidgets) { 1117 RecordProperty("MaximumWidgets", ComputeMaxUsage()); 1118 RecordProperty("MinimumWidgets", ComputeMinUsage()); 1119 } 1120 ``` 1121 1122 will output XML like this: 1123 1124 ```xml 1125 ... 1126 <testcase name="MinAndMaxWidgets" status="run" time="0.006" classname="WidgetUsageTest" MaximumWidgets="12" MinimumWidgets="9" /> 1127 ... 1128 ``` 1129 1130 > NOTE: 1131 > 1132 > * `RecordProperty()` is a static member of the `Test` class. Therefore it 1133 > needs to be prefixed with `::testing::Test::` if used outside of the 1134 > `TEST` body and the test fixture class. 1135 > * `*key*` must be a valid XML attribute name, and cannot conflict with the 1136 > ones already used by googletest (`name`, `status`, `time`, `classname`, 1137 > `type_param`, and `value_param`). 1138 > * Calling `RecordProperty()` outside of the lifespan of a test is allowed. 1139 > If it's called outside of a test but between a test suite's 1140 > `SetUpTestSuite()` and `TearDownTestSuite()` methods, it will be 1141 > attributed to the XML element for the test suite. If it's called outside 1142 > of all test suites (e.g. in a test environment), it will be attributed to 1143 > the top-level XML element. 1144 1145 ## Sharing Resources Between Tests in the Same Test Suite 1146 1147 googletest creates a new test fixture object for each test in order to make 1148 tests independent and easier to debug. However, sometimes tests use resources 1149 that are expensive to set up, making the one-copy-per-test model prohibitively 1150 expensive. 1151 1152 If the tests don't change the resource, there's no harm in their sharing a 1153 single resource copy. So, in addition to per-test set-up/tear-down, googletest 1154 also supports per-test-suite set-up/tear-down. To use it: 1155 1156 1. In your test fixture class (say `FooTest` ), declare as `static` some member 1157 variables to hold the shared resources. 1158 2. Outside your test fixture class (typically just below it), define those 1159 member variables, optionally giving them initial values. 1160 3. In the same test fixture class, define a `static void SetUpTestSuite()` 1161 function (remember not to spell it as **`SetupTestSuite`** with a small 1162 `u`!) to set up the shared resources and a `static void TearDownTestSuite()` 1163 function to tear them down. 1164 1165 That's it! googletest automatically calls `SetUpTestSuite()` before running the 1166 *first test* in the `FooTest` test suite (i.e. before creating the first 1167 `FooTest` object), and calls `TearDownTestSuite()` after running the *last test* 1168 in it (i.e. after deleting the last `FooTest` object). In between, the tests can 1169 use the shared resources. 1170 1171 Remember that the test order is undefined, so your code can't depend on a test 1172 preceding or following another. Also, the tests must either not modify the state 1173 of any shared resource, or, if they do modify the state, they must restore the 1174 state to its original value before passing control to the next test. 1175 1176 Here's an example of per-test-suite set-up and tear-down: 1177 1178 ```c++ 1179 class FooTest : public ::testing::Test { 1180 protected: 1181 // Per-test-suite set-up. 1182 // Called before the first test in this test suite. 1183 // Can be omitted if not needed. 1184 static void SetUpTestSuite() { 1185 shared_resource_ = new ...; 1186 } 1187 1188 // Per-test-suite tear-down. 1189 // Called after the last test in this test suite. 1190 // Can be omitted if not needed. 1191 static void TearDownTestSuite() { 1192 delete shared_resource_; 1193 shared_resource_ = NULL; 1194 } 1195 1196 // You can define per-test set-up logic as usual. 1197 virtual void SetUp() { ... } 1198 1199 // You can define per-test tear-down logic as usual. 1200 virtual void TearDown() { ... } 1201 1202 // Some expensive resource shared by all tests. 1203 static T* shared_resource_; 1204 }; 1205 1206 T* FooTest::shared_resource_ = NULL; 1207 1208 TEST_F(FooTest, Test1) { 1209 ... you can refer to shared_resource_ here ... 1210 } 1211 1212 TEST_F(FooTest, Test2) { 1213 ... you can refer to shared_resource_ here ... 1214 } 1215 ``` 1216 1217 NOTE: Though the above code declares `SetUpTestSuite()` protected, it may 1218 sometimes be necessary to declare it public, such as when using it with 1219 `TEST_P`. 1220 1221 ## Global Set-Up and Tear-Down 1222 1223 Just as you can do set-up and tear-down at the test level and the test suite 1224 level, you can also do it at the test program level. Here's how. 1225 1226 First, you subclass the `::testing::Environment` class to define a test 1227 environment, which knows how to set-up and tear-down: 1228 1229 ```c++ 1230 class Environment : public ::testing::Environment { 1231 public: 1232 virtual ~Environment() {} 1233 1234 // Override this to define how to set up the environment. 1235 void SetUp() override {} 1236 1237 // Override this to define how to tear down the environment. 1238 void TearDown() override {} 1239 }; 1240 ``` 1241 1242 Then, you register an instance of your environment class with googletest by 1243 calling the `::testing::AddGlobalTestEnvironment()` function: 1244 1245 ```c++ 1246 Environment* AddGlobalTestEnvironment(Environment* env); 1247 ``` 1248 1249 Now, when `RUN_ALL_TESTS()` is called, it first calls the `SetUp()` method of 1250 each environment object, then runs the tests if none of the environments 1251 reported fatal failures and `GTEST_SKIP()` was not called. `RUN_ALL_TESTS()` 1252 always calls `TearDown()` with each environment object, regardless of whether or 1253 not the tests were run. 1254 1255 It's OK to register multiple environment objects. In this suite, their `SetUp()` 1256 will be called in the order they are registered, and their `TearDown()` will be 1257 called in the reverse order. 1258 1259 Note that googletest takes ownership of the registered environment objects. 1260 Therefore **do not delete them** by yourself. 1261 1262 You should call `AddGlobalTestEnvironment()` before `RUN_ALL_TESTS()` is called, 1263 probably in `main()`. If you use `gtest_main`, you need to call this before 1264 `main()` starts for it to take effect. One way to do this is to define a global 1265 variable like this: 1266 1267 ```c++ 1268 ::testing::Environment* const foo_env = 1269 ::testing::AddGlobalTestEnvironment(new FooEnvironment); 1270 ``` 1271 1272 However, we strongly recommend you to write your own `main()` and call 1273 `AddGlobalTestEnvironment()` there, as relying on initialization of global 1274 variables makes the code harder to read and may cause problems when you register 1275 multiple environments from different translation units and the environments have 1276 dependencies among them (remember that the compiler doesn't guarantee the order 1277 in which global variables from different translation units are initialized). 1278 1279 ## Value-Parameterized Tests 1280 1281 *Value-parameterized tests* allow you to test your code with different 1282 parameters without writing multiple copies of the same test. This is useful in a 1283 number of situations, for example: 1284 1285 * You have a piece of code whose behavior is affected by one or more 1286 command-line flags. You want to make sure your code performs correctly for 1287 various values of those flags. 1288 * You want to test different implementations of an OO interface. 1289 * You want to test your code over various inputs (a.k.a. data-driven testing). 1290 This feature is easy to abuse, so please exercise your good sense when doing 1291 it! 1292 1293 ### How to Write Value-Parameterized Tests 1294 1295 To write value-parameterized tests, first you should define a fixture class. It 1296 must be derived from both `testing::Test` and `testing::WithParamInterface<T>` 1297 (the latter is a pure interface), where `T` is the type of your parameter 1298 values. For convenience, you can just derive the fixture class from 1299 `testing::TestWithParam<T>`, which itself is derived from both `testing::Test` 1300 and `testing::WithParamInterface<T>`. `T` can be any copyable type. If it's a 1301 raw pointer, you are responsible for managing the lifespan of the pointed 1302 values. 1303 1304 NOTE: If your test fixture defines `SetUpTestSuite()` or `TearDownTestSuite()` 1305 they must be declared **public** rather than **protected** in order to use 1306 `TEST_P`. 1307 1308 ```c++ 1309 class FooTest : 1310 public testing::TestWithParam<const char*> { 1311 // You can implement all the usual fixture class members here. 1312 // To access the test parameter, call GetParam() from class 1313 // TestWithParam<T>. 1314 }; 1315 1316 // Or, when you want to add parameters to a pre-existing fixture class: 1317 class BaseTest : public testing::Test { 1318 ... 1319 }; 1320 class BarTest : public BaseTest, 1321 public testing::WithParamInterface<const char*> { 1322 ... 1323 }; 1324 ``` 1325 1326 Then, use the `TEST_P` macro to define as many test patterns using this fixture 1327 as you want. The `_P` suffix is for "parameterized" or "pattern", whichever you 1328 prefer to think. 1329 1330 ```c++ 1331 TEST_P(FooTest, DoesBlah) { 1332 // Inside a test, access the test parameter with the GetParam() method 1333 // of the TestWithParam<T> class: 1334 EXPECT_TRUE(foo.Blah(GetParam())); 1335 ... 1336 } 1337 1338 TEST_P(FooTest, HasBlahBlah) { 1339 ... 1340 } 1341 ``` 1342 1343 Finally, you can use `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` to instantiate the test suite 1344 with any set of parameters you want. googletest defines a number of functions 1345 for generating test parameters. They return what we call (surprise!) *parameter 1346 generators*. Here is a summary of them, which are all in the `testing` 1347 namespace: 1348 1349 <!-- mdformat off(github rendering does not support multiline tables) --> 1350 1351 | Parameter Generator | Behavior | 1352 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1353 | `Range(begin, end [, step])` | Yields values `{begin, begin+step, begin+step+step, ...}`. The values do not include `end`. `step` defaults to 1. | 1354 | `Values(v1, v2, ..., vN)` | Yields values `{v1, v2, ..., vN}`. | 1355 | `ValuesIn(container)` and `ValuesIn(begin,end)` | Yields values from a C-style array, an STL-style container, or an iterator range `[begin, end)` | 1356 | `Bool()` | Yields sequence `{false, true}`. | 1357 | `Combine(g1, g2, ..., gN)` | Yields all combinations (Cartesian product) as std\:\:tuples of the values generated by the `N` generators. | 1358 1359 <!-- mdformat on--> 1360 1361 For more details, see the comments at the definitions of these functions. 1362 1363 The following statement will instantiate tests from the `FooTest` test suite 1364 each with parameter values `"meeny"`, `"miny"`, and `"moe"`. 1365 1366 ```c++ 1367 INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(InstantiationName, 1368 FooTest, 1369 testing::Values("meeny", "miny", "moe")); 1370 ``` 1371 1372 NOTE: The code above must be placed at global or namespace scope, not at 1373 function scope. 1374 1375 NOTE: Don't forget this step! If you do your test will silently pass, but none 1376 of its suites will ever run! 1377 1378 To distinguish different instances of the pattern (yes, you can instantiate it 1379 more than once), the first argument to `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` is a prefix 1380 that will be added to the actual test suite name. Remember to pick unique 1381 prefixes for different instantiations. The tests from the instantiation above 1382 will have these names: 1383 1384 * `InstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/0` for `"meeny"` 1385 * `InstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/1` for `"miny"` 1386 * `InstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/2` for `"moe"` 1387 * `InstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/0` for `"meeny"` 1388 * `InstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/1` for `"miny"` 1389 * `InstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/2` for `"moe"` 1390 1391 You can use these names in [`--gtest_filter`](#running-a-subset-of-the-tests). 1392 1393 This statement will instantiate all tests from `FooTest` again, each with 1394 parameter values `"cat"` and `"dog"`: 1395 1396 ```c++ 1397 const char* pets[] = {"cat", "dog"}; 1398 INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(AnotherInstantiationName, FooTest, 1399 testing::ValuesIn(pets)); 1400 ``` 1401 1402 The tests from the instantiation above will have these names: 1403 1404 * `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/0` for `"cat"` 1405 * `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/1` for `"dog"` 1406 * `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/0` for `"cat"` 1407 * `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/1` for `"dog"` 1408 1409 Please note that `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` will instantiate *all* tests in the 1410 given test suite, whether their definitions come before or *after* the 1411 `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` statement. 1412 1413 You can see [sample7_unittest.cc] and [sample8_unittest.cc] for more examples. 1414 1415 [sample7_unittest.cc]: ../samples/sample7_unittest.cc "Parameterized Test example" 1416 [sample8_unittest.cc]: ../samples/sample8_unittest.cc "Parameterized Test example with multiple parameters" 1417 1418 ### Creating Value-Parameterized Abstract Tests 1419 1420 In the above, we define and instantiate `FooTest` in the *same* source file. 1421 Sometimes you may want to define value-parameterized tests in a library and let 1422 other people instantiate them later. This pattern is known as *abstract tests*. 1423 As an example of its application, when you are designing an interface you can 1424 write a standard suite of abstract tests (perhaps using a factory function as 1425 the test parameter) that all implementations of the interface are expected to 1426 pass. When someone implements the interface, they can instantiate your suite to 1427 get all the interface-conformance tests for free. 1428 1429 To define abstract tests, you should organize your code like this: 1430 1431 1. Put the definition of the parameterized test fixture class (e.g. `FooTest`) 1432 in a header file, say `foo_param_test.h`. Think of this as *declaring* your 1433 abstract tests. 1434 2. Put the `TEST_P` definitions in `foo_param_test.cc`, which includes 1435 `foo_param_test.h`. Think of this as *implementing* your abstract tests. 1436 1437 Once they are defined, you can instantiate them by including `foo_param_test.h`, 1438 invoking `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P()`, and depending on the library target that 1439 contains `foo_param_test.cc`. You can instantiate the same abstract test suite 1440 multiple times, possibly in different source files. 1441 1442 ### Specifying Names for Value-Parameterized Test Parameters 1443 1444 The optional last argument to `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P()` allows the user to 1445 specify a function or functor that generates custom test name suffixes based on 1446 the test parameters. The function should accept one argument of type 1447 `testing::TestParamInfo<class ParamType>`, and return `std::string`. 1448 1449 `testing::PrintToStringParamName` is a builtin test suffix generator that 1450 returns the value of `testing::PrintToString(GetParam())`. It does not work for 1451 `std::string` or C strings. 1452 1453 NOTE: test names must be non-empty, unique, and may only contain ASCII 1454 alphanumeric characters. In particular, they 1455 [should not contain underscores](faq.md#why-should-test-suite-names-and-test-names-not-contain-underscore) 1456 1457 ```c++ 1458 class MyTestSuite : public testing::TestWithParam<int> {}; 1459 1460 TEST_P(MyTestSuite, MyTest) 1461 { 1462 std::cout << "Example Test Param: " << GetParam() << std::endl; 1463 } 1464 1465 INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(MyGroup, MyTestSuite, testing::Range(0, 10), 1466 testing::PrintToStringParamName()); 1467 ``` 1468 1469 Providing a custom functor allows for more control over test parameter name 1470 generation, especially for types where the automatic conversion does not 1471 generate helpful parameter names (e.g. strings as demonstrated above). The 1472 following example illustrates this for multiple parameters, an enumeration type 1473 and a string, and also demonstrates how to combine generators. It uses a lambda 1474 for conciseness: 1475 1476 ```c++ 1477 enum class MyType { MY_FOO = 0, MY_BAR = 1 }; 1478 1479 class MyTestSuite : public testing::TestWithParam<std::tuple<MyType, string>> { 1480 }; 1481 1482 INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P( 1483 MyGroup, MyTestSuite, 1484 testing::Combine( 1485 testing::Values(MyType::VALUE_0, MyType::VALUE_1), 1486 testing::ValuesIn("", "")), 1487 [](const testing::TestParamInfo<MyTestSuite::ParamType>& info) { 1488 string name = absl::StrCat( 1489 std::get<0>(info.param) == MY_FOO ? "Foo" : "Bar", "_", 1490 std::get<1>(info.param)); 1491 absl::c_replace_if(name, [](char c) { return !std::isalnum(c); }, '_'); 1492 return name; 1493 }); 1494 ``` 1495 1496 ## Typed Tests 1497 1498 Suppose you have multiple implementations of the same interface and want to make 1499 sure that all of them satisfy some common requirements. Or, you may have defined 1500 several types that are supposed to conform to the same "concept" and you want to 1501 verify it. In both cases, you want the same test logic repeated for different 1502 types. 1503 1504 While you can write one `TEST` or `TEST_F` for each type you want to test (and 1505 you may even factor the test logic into a function template that you invoke from 1506 the `TEST`), it's tedious and doesn't scale: if you want `m` tests over `n` 1507 types, you'll end up writing `m*n` `TEST`s. 1508 1509 *Typed tests* allow you to repeat the same test logic over a list of types. You 1510 only need to write the test logic once, although you must know the type list 1511 when writing typed tests. Here's how you do it: 1512 1513 First, define a fixture class template. It should be parameterized by a type. 1514 Remember to derive it from `::testing::Test`: 1515 1516 ```c++ 1517 template <typename T> 1518 class FooTest : public ::testing::Test { 1519 public: 1520 ... 1521 typedef std::list<T> List; 1522 static T shared_; 1523 T value_; 1524 }; 1525 ``` 1526 1527 Next, associate a list of types with the test suite, which will be repeated for 1528 each type in the list: 1529 1530 ```c++ 1531 using MyTypes = ::testing::Types<char, int, unsigned int>; 1532 TYPED_TEST_SUITE(FooTest, MyTypes); 1533 ``` 1534 1535 The type alias (`using` or `typedef`) is necessary for the `TYPED_TEST_SUITE` 1536 macro to parse correctly. Otherwise the compiler will think that each comma in 1537 the type list introduces a new macro argument. 1538 1539 Then, use `TYPED_TEST()` instead of `TEST_F()` to define a typed test for this 1540 test suite. You can repeat this as many times as you want: 1541 1542 ```c++ 1543 TYPED_TEST(FooTest, DoesBlah) { 1544 // Inside a test, refer to the special name TypeParam to get the type 1545 // parameter. Since we are inside a derived class template, C++ requires 1546 // us to visit the members of FooTest via 'this'. 1547 TypeParam n = this->value_; 1548 1549 // To visit static members of the fixture, add the 'TestFixture::' 1550 // prefix. 1551 n += TestFixture::shared_; 1552 1553 // To refer to typedefs in the fixture, add the 'typename TestFixture::' 1554 // prefix. The 'typename' is required to satisfy the compiler. 1555 typename TestFixture::List values; 1556 1557 values.push_back(n); 1558 ... 1559 } 1560 1561 TYPED_TEST(FooTest, HasPropertyA) { ... } 1562 ``` 1563 1564 You can see [sample6_unittest.cc] for a complete example. 1565 1566 [sample6_unittest.cc]: ../samples/sample6_unittest.cc "Typed Test example" 1567 1568 ## Type-Parameterized Tests 1569 1570 *Type-parameterized tests* are like typed tests, except that they don't require 1571 you to know the list of types ahead of time. Instead, you can define the test 1572 logic first and instantiate it with different type lists later. You can even 1573 instantiate it more than once in the same program. 1574 1575 If you are designing an interface or concept, you can define a suite of 1576 type-parameterized tests to verify properties that any valid implementation of 1577 the interface/concept should have. Then, the author of each implementation can 1578 just instantiate the test suite with their type to verify that it conforms to 1579 the requirements, without having to write similar tests repeatedly. Here's an 1580 example: 1581 1582 First, define a fixture class template, as we did with typed tests: 1583 1584 ```c++ 1585 template <typename T> 1586 class FooTest : public ::testing::Test { 1587 ... 1588 }; 1589 ``` 1590 1591 Next, declare that you will define a type-parameterized test suite: 1592 1593 ```c++ 1594 TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(FooTest); 1595 ``` 1596 1597 Then, use `TYPED_TEST_P()` to define a type-parameterized test. You can repeat 1598 this as many times as you want: 1599 1600 ```c++ 1601 TYPED_TEST_P(FooTest, DoesBlah) { 1602 // Inside a test, refer to TypeParam to get the type parameter. 1603 TypeParam n = 0; 1604 ... 1605 } 1606 1607 TYPED_TEST_P(FooTest, HasPropertyA) { ... } 1608 ``` 1609 1610 Now the tricky part: you need to register all test patterns using the 1611 `REGISTER_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P` macro before you can instantiate them. The first 1612 argument of the macro is the test suite name; the rest are the names of the 1613 tests in this test suite: 1614 1615 ```c++ 1616 REGISTER_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(FooTest, 1617 DoesBlah, HasPropertyA); 1618 ``` 1619 1620 Finally, you are free to instantiate the pattern with the types you want. If you 1621 put the above code in a header file, you can `#include` it in multiple C++ 1622 source files and instantiate it multiple times. 1623 1624 ```c++ 1625 typedef ::testing::Types<char, int, unsigned int> MyTypes; 1626 INSTANTIATE_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(My, FooTest, MyTypes); 1627 ``` 1628 1629 To distinguish different instances of the pattern, the first argument to the 1630 `INSTANTIATE_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P` macro is a prefix that will be added to the 1631 actual test suite name. Remember to pick unique prefixes for different 1632 instances. 1633 1634 In the special case where the type list contains only one type, you can write 1635 that type directly without `::testing::Types<...>`, like this: 1636 1637 ```c++ 1638 INSTANTIATE_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(My, FooTest, int); 1639 ``` 1640 1641 You can see [sample6_unittest.cc] for a complete example. 1642 1643 ## Testing Private Code 1644 1645 If you change your software's internal implementation, your tests should not 1646 break as long as the change is not observable by users. Therefore, **per the 1647 black-box testing principle, most of the time you should test your code through 1648 its public interfaces.** 1649 1650 **If you still find yourself needing to test internal implementation code, 1651 consider if there's a better design.** The desire to test internal 1652 implementation is often a sign that the class is doing too much. Consider 1653 extracting an implementation class, and testing it. Then use that implementation 1654 class in the original class. 1655 1656 If you absolutely have to test non-public interface code though, you can. There 1657 are two cases to consider: 1658 1659 * Static functions ( *not* the same as static member functions!) or unnamed 1660 namespaces, and 1661 * Private or protected class members 1662 1663 To test them, we use the following special techniques: 1664 1665 * Both static functions and definitions/declarations in an unnamed namespace 1666 are only visible within the same translation unit. To test them, you can 1667 `#include` the entire `.cc` file being tested in your `*_test.cc` file. 1668 (#including `.cc` files is not a good way to reuse code - you should not do 1669 this in production code!) 1670 1671 However, a better approach is to move the private code into the 1672 `foo::internal` namespace, where `foo` is the namespace your project 1673 normally uses, and put the private declarations in a `*-internal.h` file. 1674 Your production `.cc` files and your tests are allowed to include this 1675 internal header, but your clients are not. This way, you can fully test your 1676 internal implementation without leaking it to your clients. 1677 1678 * Private class members are only accessible from within the class or by 1679 friends. To access a class' private members, you can declare your test 1680 fixture as a friend to the class and define accessors in your fixture. Tests 1681 using the fixture can then access the private members of your production 1682 class via the accessors in the fixture. Note that even though your fixture 1683 is a friend to your production class, your tests are not automatically 1684 friends to it, as they are technically defined in sub-classes of the 1685 fixture. 1686 1687 Another way to test private members is to refactor them into an 1688 implementation class, which is then declared in a `*-internal.h` file. Your 1689 clients aren't allowed to include this header but your tests can. Such is 1690 called the 1691 [Pimpl](https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/the-c-pimpl-r1794/) 1692 (Private Implementation) idiom. 1693 1694 Or, you can declare an individual test as a friend of your class by adding 1695 this line in the class body: 1696 1697 ```c++ 1698 FRIEND_TEST(TestSuiteName, TestName); 1699 ``` 1700 1701 For example, 1702 1703 ```c++ 1704 // foo.h 1705 class Foo { 1706 ... 1707 private: 1708 FRIEND_TEST(FooTest, BarReturnsZeroOnNull); 1709 1710 int Bar(void* x); 1711 }; 1712 1713 // foo_test.cc 1714 ... 1715 TEST(FooTest, BarReturnsZeroOnNull) { 1716 Foo foo; 1717 EXPECT_EQ(foo.Bar(NULL), 0); // Uses Foo's private member Bar(). 1718 } 1719 ``` 1720 1721 Pay special attention when your class is defined in a namespace, as you 1722 should define your test fixtures and tests in the same namespace if you want 1723 them to be friends of your class. For example, if the code to be tested 1724 looks like: 1725 1726 ```c++ 1727 namespace my_namespace { 1728 1729 class Foo { 1730 friend class FooTest; 1731 FRIEND_TEST(FooTest, Bar); 1732 FRIEND_TEST(FooTest, Baz); 1733 ... definition of the class Foo ... 1734 }; 1735 1736 } // namespace my_namespace 1737 ``` 1738 1739 Your test code should be something like: 1740 1741 ```c++ 1742 namespace my_namespace { 1743 1744 class FooTest : public ::testing::Test { 1745 protected: 1746 ... 1747 }; 1748 1749 TEST_F(FooTest, Bar) { ... } 1750 TEST_F(FooTest, Baz) { ... } 1751 1752 } // namespace my_namespace 1753 ``` 1754 1755 ## "Catching" Failures 1756 1757 If you are building a testing utility on top of googletest, you'll want to test 1758 your utility. What framework would you use to test it? googletest, of course. 1759 1760 The challenge is to verify that your testing utility reports failures correctly. 1761 In frameworks that report a failure by throwing an exception, you could catch 1762 the exception and assert on it. But googletest doesn't use exceptions, so how do 1763 we test that a piece of code generates an expected failure? 1764 1765 gunit-spi.h contains some constructs to do this. After #including this header, 1766 you can use 1767 1768 ```c++ 1769 EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE(statement, substring); 1770 ``` 1771 1772 to assert that `statement` generates a fatal (e.g. `ASSERT_*`) failure in the 1773 current thread whose message contains the given `substring`, or use 1774 1775 ```c++ 1776 EXPECT_NONFATAL_FAILURE(statement, substring); 1777 ``` 1778 1779 if you are expecting a non-fatal (e.g. `EXPECT_*`) failure. 1780 1781 Only failures in the current thread are checked to determine the result of this 1782 type of expectations. If `statement` creates new threads, failures in these 1783 threads are also ignored. If you want to catch failures in other threads as 1784 well, use one of the following macros instead: 1785 1786 ```c++ 1787 EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE_ON_ALL_THREADS(statement, substring); 1788 EXPECT_NONFATAL_FAILURE_ON_ALL_THREADS(statement, substring); 1789 ``` 1790 1791 NOTE: Assertions from multiple threads are currently not supported on Windows. 1792 1793 For technical reasons, there are some caveats: 1794 1795 1. You cannot stream a failure message to either macro. 1796 1797 2. `statement` in `EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE{_ON_ALL_THREADS}()` cannot reference 1798 local non-static variables or non-static members of `this` object. 1799 1800 3. `statement` in `EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE{_ON_ALL_THREADS}()` cannot return a 1801 value. 1802 1803 ## Registering tests programmatically 1804 1805 The `TEST` macros handle the vast majority of all use cases, but there are few 1806 were runtime registration logic is required. For those cases, the framework 1807 provides the `::testing::RegisterTest` that allows callers to register arbitrary 1808 tests dynamically. 1809 1810 This is an advanced API only to be used when the `TEST` macros are insufficient. 1811 The macros should be preferred when possible, as they avoid most of the 1812 complexity of calling this function. 1813 1814 It provides the following signature: 1815 1816 ```c++ 1817 template <typename Factory> 1818 TestInfo* RegisterTest(const char* test_suite_name, const char* test_name, 1819 const char* type_param, const char* value_param, 1820 const char* file, int line, Factory factory); 1821 ``` 1822 1823 The `factory` argument is a factory callable (move-constructible) object or 1824 function pointer that creates a new instance of the Test object. It handles 1825 ownership to the caller. The signature of the callable is `Fixture*()`, where 1826 `Fixture` is the test fixture class for the test. All tests registered with the 1827 same `test_suite_name` must return the same fixture type. This is checked at 1828 runtime. 1829 1830 The framework will infer the fixture class from the factory and will call the 1831 `SetUpTestSuite` and `TearDownTestSuite` for it. 1832 1833 Must be called before `RUN_ALL_TESTS()` is invoked, otherwise behavior is 1834 undefined. 1835 1836 Use case example: 1837 1838 ```c++ 1839 class MyFixture : public ::testing::Test { 1840 public: 1841 // All of these optional, just like in regular macro usage. 1842 static void SetUpTestSuite() { ... } 1843 static void TearDownTestSuite() { ... } 1844 void SetUp() override { ... } 1845 void TearDown() override { ... } 1846 }; 1847 1848 class MyTest : public MyFixture { 1849 public: 1850 explicit MyTest(int data) : data_(data) {} 1851 void TestBody() override { ... } 1852 1853 private: 1854 int data_; 1855 }; 1856 1857 void RegisterMyTests(const std::vector<int>& values) { 1858 for (int v : values) { 1859 ::testing::RegisterTest( 1860 "MyFixture", ("Test" + std::to_string(v)).c_str(), nullptr, 1861 std::to_string(v).c_str(), 1862 __FILE__, __LINE__, 1863 // Important to use the fixture type as the return type here. 1864 [=]() -> MyFixture* { return new MyTest(v); }); 1865 } 1866 } 1867 ... 1868 int main(int argc, char** argv) { 1869 std::vector<int> values_to_test = LoadValuesFromConfig(); 1870 RegisterMyTests(values_to_test); 1871 ... 1872 return RUN_ALL_TESTS(); 1873 } 1874 ``` 1875 ## Getting the Current Test's Name 1876 1877 Sometimes a function may need to know the name of the currently running test. 1878 For example, you may be using the `SetUp()` method of your test fixture to set 1879 the golden file name based on which test is running. The `::testing::TestInfo` 1880 class has this information: 1881 1882 ```c++ 1883 namespace testing { 1884 1885 class TestInfo { 1886 public: 1887 // Returns the test suite name and the test name, respectively. 1888 // 1889 // Do NOT delete or free the return value - it's managed by the 1890 // TestInfo class. 1891 const char* test_suite_name() const; 1892 const char* name() const; 1893 }; 1894 1895 } 1896 ``` 1897 1898 To obtain a `TestInfo` object for the currently running test, call 1899 `current_test_info()` on the `UnitTest` singleton object: 1900 1901 ```c++ 1902 // Gets information about the currently running test. 1903 // Do NOT delete the returned object - it's managed by the UnitTest class. 1904 const ::testing::TestInfo* const test_info = 1905 ::testing::UnitTest::GetInstance()->current_test_info(); 1906 1907 1908 1909 printf("We are in test %s of test suite %s.\n", 1910 test_info->name(), 1911 test_info->test_suite_name()); 1912 ``` 1913 1914 `current_test_info()` returns a null pointer if no test is running. In 1915 particular, you cannot find the test suite name in `TestSuiteSetUp()`, 1916 `TestSuiteTearDown()` (where you know the test suite name implicitly), or 1917 functions called from them. 1918 1919 ## Extending googletest by Handling Test Events 1920 1921 googletest provides an **event listener API** to let you receive notifications 1922 about the progress of a test program and test failures. The events you can 1923 listen to include the start and end of the test program, a test suite, or a test 1924 method, among others. You may use this API to augment or replace the standard 1925 console output, replace the XML output, or provide a completely different form 1926 of output, such as a GUI or a database. You can also use test events as 1927 checkpoints to implement a resource leak checker, for example. 1928 1929 ### Defining Event Listeners 1930 1931 To define a event listener, you subclass either testing::TestEventListener or 1932 testing::EmptyTestEventListener The former is an (abstract) interface, where 1933 *each pure virtual method can be overridden to handle a test event* (For 1934 example, when a test starts, the `OnTestStart()` method will be called.). The 1935 latter provides an empty implementation of all methods in the interface, such 1936 that a subclass only needs to override the methods it cares about. 1937 1938 When an event is fired, its context is passed to the handler function as an 1939 argument. The following argument types are used: 1940 1941 * UnitTest reflects the state of the entire test program, 1942 * TestSuite has information about a test suite, which can contain one or more 1943 tests, 1944 * TestInfo contains the state of a test, and 1945 * TestPartResult represents the result of a test assertion. 1946 1947 An event handler function can examine the argument it receives to find out 1948 interesting information about the event and the test program's state. 1949 1950 Here's an example: 1951 1952 ```c++ 1953 class MinimalistPrinter : public ::testing::EmptyTestEventListener { 1954 // Called before a test starts. 1955 virtual void OnTestStart(const ::testing::TestInfo& test_info) { 1956 printf("*** Test %s.%s starting.\n", 1957 test_info.test_suite_name(), test_info.name()); 1958 } 1959 1960 // Called after a failed assertion or a SUCCESS(). 1961 virtual void OnTestPartResult(const ::testing::TestPartResult& test_part_result) { 1962 printf("%s in %s:%d\n%s\n", 1963 test_part_result.failed() ? "*** Failure" : "Success", 1964 test_part_result.file_name(), 1965 test_part_result.line_number(), 1966 test_part_result.summary()); 1967 } 1968 1969 // Called after a test ends. 1970 virtual void OnTestEnd(const ::testing::TestInfo& test_info) { 1971 printf("*** Test %s.%s ending.\n", 1972 test_info.test_suite_name(), test_info.name()); 1973 } 1974 }; 1975 ``` 1976 1977 ### Using Event Listeners 1978 1979 To use the event listener you have defined, add an instance of it to the 1980 googletest event listener list (represented by class TestEventListeners - note 1981 the "s" at the end of the name) in your `main()` function, before calling 1982 `RUN_ALL_TESTS()`: 1983 1984 ```c++ 1985 int main(int argc, char** argv) { 1986 ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv); 1987 // Gets hold of the event listener list. 1988 ::testing::TestEventListeners& listeners = 1989 ::testing::UnitTest::GetInstance()->listeners(); 1990 // Adds a listener to the end. googletest takes the ownership. 1991 listeners.Append(new MinimalistPrinter); 1992 return RUN_ALL_TESTS(); 1993 } 1994 ``` 1995 1996 There's only one problem: the default test result printer is still in effect, so 1997 its output will mingle with the output from your minimalist printer. To suppress 1998 the default printer, just release it from the event listener list and delete it. 1999 You can do so by adding one line: 2000 2001 ```c++ 2002 ... 2003 delete listeners.Release(listeners.default_result_printer()); 2004 listeners.Append(new MinimalistPrinter); 2005 return RUN_ALL_TESTS(); 2006 ``` 2007 2008 Now, sit back and enjoy a completely different output from your tests. For more 2009 details, see [sample9_unittest.cc]. 2010 2011 [sample9_unittest.cc]: ../samples/sample9_unittest.cc "Event listener example" 2012 2013 You may append more than one listener to the list. When an `On*Start()` or 2014 `OnTestPartResult()` event is fired, the listeners will receive it in the order 2015 they appear in the list (since new listeners are added to the end of the list, 2016 the default text printer and the default XML generator will receive the event 2017 first). An `On*End()` event will be received by the listeners in the *reverse* 2018 order. This allows output by listeners added later to be framed by output from 2019 listeners added earlier. 2020 2021 ### Generating Failures in Listeners 2022 2023 You may use failure-raising macros (`EXPECT_*()`, `ASSERT_*()`, `FAIL()`, etc) 2024 when processing an event. There are some restrictions: 2025 2026 1. You cannot generate any failure in `OnTestPartResult()` (otherwise it will 2027 cause `OnTestPartResult()` to be called recursively). 2028 2. A listener that handles `OnTestPartResult()` is not allowed to generate any 2029 failure. 2030 2031 When you add listeners to the listener list, you should put listeners that 2032 handle `OnTestPartResult()` *before* listeners that can generate failures. This 2033 ensures that failures generated by the latter are attributed to the right test 2034 by the former. 2035 2036 See [sample10_unittest.cc] for an example of a failure-raising listener. 2037 2038 [sample10_unittest.cc]: ../samples/sample10_unittest.cc "Failure-raising listener example" 2039 2040 ## Running Test Programs: Advanced Options 2041 2042 googletest test programs are ordinary executables. Once built, you can run them 2043 directly and affect their behavior via the following environment variables 2044 and/or command line flags. For the flags to work, your programs must call 2045 `::testing::InitGoogleTest()` before calling `RUN_ALL_TESTS()`. 2046 2047 To see a list of supported flags and their usage, please run your test program 2048 with the `--help` flag. You can also use `-h`, `-?`, or `/?` for short. 2049 2050 If an option is specified both by an environment variable and by a flag, the 2051 latter takes precedence. 2052 2053 ### Selecting Tests 2054 2055 #### Listing Test Names 2056 2057 Sometimes it is necessary to list the available tests in a program before 2058 running them so that a filter may be applied if needed. Including the flag 2059 `--gtest_list_tests` overrides all other flags and lists tests in the following 2060 format: 2061 2062 ```none 2063 TestSuite1. 2064 TestName1 2065 TestName2 2066 TestSuite2. 2067 TestName 2068 ``` 2069 2070 None of the tests listed are actually run if the flag is provided. There is no 2071 corresponding environment variable for this flag. 2072 2073 #### Running a Subset of the Tests 2074 2075 By default, a googletest program runs all tests the user has defined. Sometimes, 2076 you want to run only a subset of the tests (e.g. for debugging or quickly 2077 verifying a change). If you set the `GTEST_FILTER` environment variable or the 2078 `--gtest_filter` flag to a filter string, googletest will only run the tests 2079 whose full names (in the form of `TestSuiteName.TestName`) match the filter. 2080 2081 The format of a filter is a '`:`'-separated list of wildcard patterns (called 2082 the *positive patterns*) optionally followed by a '`-`' and another 2083 '`:`'-separated pattern list (called the *negative patterns*). A test matches 2084 the filter if and only if it matches any of the positive patterns but does not 2085 match any of the negative patterns. 2086 2087 A pattern may contain `'*'` (matches any string) or `'?'` (matches any single 2088 character). For convenience, the filter `'*-NegativePatterns'` can be also 2089 written as `'-NegativePatterns'`. 2090 2091 For example: 2092 2093 * `./foo_test` Has no flag, and thus runs all its tests. 2094 * `./foo_test --gtest_filter=*` Also runs everything, due to the single 2095 match-everything `*` value. 2096 * `./foo_test --gtest_filter=FooTest.*` Runs everything in test suite 2097 `FooTest` . 2098 * `./foo_test --gtest_filter=*Null*:*Constructor*` Runs any test whose full 2099 name contains either `"Null"` or `"Constructor"` . 2100 * `./foo_test --gtest_filter=-*DeathTest.*` Runs all non-death tests. 2101 * `./foo_test --gtest_filter=FooTest.*-FooTest.Bar` Runs everything in test 2102 suite `FooTest` except `FooTest.Bar`. 2103 * `./foo_test --gtest_filter=FooTest.*:BarTest.*-FooTest.Bar:BarTest.Foo` Runs 2104 everything in test suite `FooTest` except `FooTest.Bar` and everything in 2105 test suite `BarTest` except `BarTest.Foo`. 2106 2107 #### Temporarily Disabling Tests 2108 2109 If you have a broken test that you cannot fix right away, you can add the 2110 `DISABLED_` prefix to its name. This will exclude it from execution. This is 2111 better than commenting out the code or using `#if 0`, as disabled tests are 2112 still compiled (and thus won't rot). 2113 2114 If you need to disable all tests in a test suite, you can either add `DISABLED_` 2115 to the front of the name of each test, or alternatively add it to the front of 2116 the test suite name. 2117 2118 For example, the following tests won't be run by googletest, even though they 2119 will still be compiled: 2120 2121 ```c++ 2122 // Tests that Foo does Abc. 2123 TEST(FooTest, DISABLED_DoesAbc) { ... } 2124 2125 class DISABLED_BarTest : public ::testing::Test { ... }; 2126 2127 // Tests that Bar does Xyz. 2128 TEST_F(DISABLED_BarTest, DoesXyz) { ... } 2129 ``` 2130 2131 NOTE: This feature should only be used for temporary pain-relief. You still have 2132 to fix the disabled tests at a later date. As a reminder, googletest will print 2133 a banner warning you if a test program contains any disabled tests. 2134 2135 TIP: You can easily count the number of disabled tests you have using `gsearch` 2136 and/or `grep`. This number can be used as a metric for improving your test 2137 quality. 2138 2139 #### Temporarily Enabling Disabled Tests 2140 2141 To include disabled tests in test execution, just invoke the test program with 2142 the `--gtest_also_run_disabled_tests` flag or set the 2143 `GTEST_ALSO_RUN_DISABLED_TESTS` environment variable to a value other than `0`. 2144 You can combine this with the `--gtest_filter` flag to further select which 2145 disabled tests to run. 2146 2147 ### Repeating the Tests 2148 2149 Once in a while you'll run into a test whose result is hit-or-miss. Perhaps it 2150 will fail only 1% of the time, making it rather hard to reproduce the bug under 2151 a debugger. This can be a major source of frustration. 2152 2153 The `--gtest_repeat` flag allows you to repeat all (or selected) test methods in 2154 a program many times. Hopefully, a flaky test will eventually fail and give you 2155 a chance to debug. Here's how to use it: 2156 2157 ```none 2158 $ foo_test --gtest_repeat=1000 2159 Repeat foo_test 1000 times and don't stop at failures. 2160 2161 $ foo_test --gtest_repeat=-1 2162 A negative count means repeating forever. 2163 2164 $ foo_test --gtest_repeat=1000 --gtest_break_on_failure 2165 Repeat foo_test 1000 times, stopping at the first failure. This 2166 is especially useful when running under a debugger: when the test 2167 fails, it will drop into the debugger and you can then inspect 2168 variables and stacks. 2169 2170 $ foo_test --gtest_repeat=1000 --gtest_filter=FooBar.* 2171 Repeat the tests whose name matches the filter 1000 times. 2172 ``` 2173 2174 If your test program contains 2175 [global set-up/tear-down](#global-set-up-and-tear-down) code, it will be 2176 repeated in each iteration as well, as the flakiness may be in it. You can also 2177 specify the repeat count by setting the `GTEST_REPEAT` environment variable. 2178 2179 ### Shuffling the Tests 2180 2181 You can specify the `--gtest_shuffle` flag (or set the `GTEST_SHUFFLE` 2182 environment variable to `1`) to run the tests in a program in a random order. 2183 This helps to reveal bad dependencies between tests. 2184 2185 By default, googletest uses a random seed calculated from the current time. 2186 Therefore you'll get a different order every time. The console output includes 2187 the random seed value, such that you can reproduce an order-related test failure 2188 later. To specify the random seed explicitly, use the `--gtest_random_seed=SEED` 2189 flag (or set the `GTEST_RANDOM_SEED` environment variable), where `SEED` is an 2190 integer in the range [0, 99999]. The seed value 0 is special: it tells 2191 googletest to do the default behavior of calculating the seed from the current 2192 time. 2193 2194 If you combine this with `--gtest_repeat=N`, googletest will pick a different 2195 random seed and re-shuffle the tests in each iteration. 2196 2197 ### Controlling Test Output 2198 2199 #### Colored Terminal Output 2200 2201 googletest can use colors in its terminal output to make it easier to spot the 2202 important information: 2203 2204 <code> 2205 ...<br/> 2206 <font color="green">[----------]</font><font color="black"> 1 test from 2207 FooTest</font><br/> 2208 <font color="green">[ RUN ]</font><font color="black"> 2209 FooTest.DoesAbc</font><br/> 2210 <font color="green">[ OK ]</font><font color="black"> 2211 FooTest.DoesAbc </font><br/> 2212 <font color="green">[----------]</font><font color="black"> 2213 2 tests from BarTest</font><br/> 2214 <font color="green">[ RUN ]</font><font color="black"> 2215 BarTest.HasXyzProperty </font><br/> 2216 <font color="green">[ OK ]</font><font color="black"> 2217 BarTest.HasXyzProperty</font><br/> 2218 <font color="green">[ RUN ]</font><font color="black"> 2219 BarTest.ReturnsTrueOnSuccess ... some error messages ...</font><br/> 2220 <font color="red">[ FAILED ]</font><font color="black"> 2221 BarTest.ReturnsTrueOnSuccess ...</font><br/> 2222 <font color="green">[==========]</font><font color="black"> 2223 30 tests from 14 test suites ran.</font><br/> 2224 <font color="green">[ PASSED ]</font><font color="black"> 2225 28 tests.</font><br/> 2226 <font color="red">[ FAILED ]</font><font color="black"> 2227 2 tests, listed below:</font><br/> 2228 <font color="red">[ FAILED ]</font><font color="black"> 2229 BarTest.ReturnsTrueOnSuccess</font><br/> 2230 <font color="red">[ FAILED ]</font><font color="black"> 2231 AnotherTest.DoesXyz<br/> 2232 <br/> 2233 2 FAILED TESTS 2234 </font> 2235 </code> 2236 2237 You can set the `GTEST_COLOR` environment variable or the `--gtest_color` 2238 command line flag to `yes`, `no`, or `auto` (the default) to enable colors, 2239 disable colors, or let googletest decide. When the value is `auto`, googletest 2240 will use colors if and only if the output goes to a terminal and (on non-Windows 2241 platforms) the `TERM` environment variable is set to `xterm` or `xterm-color`. 2242 2243 #### Suppressing the Elapsed Time 2244 2245 By default, googletest prints the time it takes to run each test. To disable 2246 that, run the test program with the `--gtest_print_time=0` command line flag, or 2247 set the GTEST_PRINT_TIME environment variable to `0`. 2248 2249 #### Suppressing UTF-8 Text Output 2250 2251 In case of assertion failures, googletest prints expected and actual values of 2252 type `string` both as hex-encoded strings as well as in readable UTF-8 text if 2253 they contain valid non-ASCII UTF-8 characters. If you want to suppress the UTF-8 2254 text because, for example, you don't have an UTF-8 compatible output medium, run 2255 the test program with `--gtest_print_utf8=0` or set the `GTEST_PRINT_UTF8` 2256 environment variable to `0`. 2257 2258 2259 2260 #### Generating an XML Report 2261 2262 googletest can emit a detailed XML report to a file in addition to its normal 2263 textual output. The report contains the duration of each test, and thus can help 2264 you identify slow tests. The report is also used by the http://unittest 2265 dashboard to show per-test-method error messages. 2266 2267 To generate the XML report, set the `GTEST_OUTPUT` environment variable or the 2268 `--gtest_output` flag to the string `"xml:path_to_output_file"`, which will 2269 create the file at the given location. You can also just use the string `"xml"`, 2270 in which case the output can be found in the `test_detail.xml` file in the 2271 current directory. 2272 2273 If you specify a directory (for example, `"xml:output/directory/"` on Linux or 2274 `"xml:output\directory\"` on Windows), googletest will create the XML file in 2275 that directory, named after the test executable (e.g. `foo_test.xml` for test 2276 program `foo_test` or `foo_test.exe`). If the file already exists (perhaps left 2277 over from a previous run), googletest will pick a different name (e.g. 2278 `foo_test_1.xml`) to avoid overwriting it. 2279 2280 The report is based on the `junitreport` Ant task. Since that format was 2281 originally intended for Java, a little interpretation is required to make it 2282 apply to googletest tests, as shown here: 2283 2284 ```xml 2285 <testsuites name="AllTests" ...> 2286 <testsuite name="test_case_name" ...> 2287 <testcase name="test_name" ...> 2288 <failure message="..."/> 2289 <failure message="..."/> 2290 <failure message="..."/> 2291 </testcase> 2292 </testsuite> 2293 </testsuites> 2294 ``` 2295 2296 * The root `<testsuites>` element corresponds to the entire test program. 2297 * `<testsuite>` elements correspond to googletest test suites. 2298 * `<testcase>` elements correspond to googletest test functions. 2299 2300 For instance, the following program 2301 2302 ```c++ 2303 TEST(MathTest, Addition) { ... } 2304 TEST(MathTest, Subtraction) { ... } 2305 TEST(LogicTest, NonContradiction) { ... } 2306 ``` 2307 2308 could generate this report: 2309 2310 ```xml 2311 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2312 <testsuites tests="3" failures="1" errors="0" time="0.035" timestamp="2011-10-31T18:52:42" name="AllTests"> 2313 <testsuite name="MathTest" tests="2" failures="1" errors="0" time="0.015"> 2314 <testcase name="Addition" status="run" time="0.007" classname=""> 2315 <failure message="Value of: add(1, 1)
 Actual: 3
Expected: 2" type="">...</failure> 2316 <failure message="Value of: add(1, -1)
 Actual: 1
Expected: 0" type="">...</failure> 2317 </testcase> 2318 <testcase name="Subtraction" status="run" time="0.005" classname=""> 2319 </testcase> 2320 </testsuite> 2321 <testsuite name="LogicTest" tests="1" failures="0" errors="0" time="0.005"> 2322 <testcase name="NonContradiction" status="run" time="0.005" classname=""> 2323 </testcase> 2324 </testsuite> 2325 </testsuites> 2326 ``` 2327 2328 Things to note: 2329 2330 * The `tests` attribute of a `<testsuites>` or `<testsuite>` element tells how 2331 many test functions the googletest program or test suite contains, while the 2332 `failures` attribute tells how many of them failed. 2333 2334 * The `time` attribute expresses the duration of the test, test suite, or 2335 entire test program in seconds. 2336 2337 * The `timestamp` attribute records the local date and time of the test 2338 execution. 2339 2340 * Each `<failure>` element corresponds to a single failed googletest 2341 assertion. 2342 2343 #### Generating a JSON Report 2344 2345 googletest can also emit a JSON report as an alternative format to XML. To 2346 generate the JSON report, set the `GTEST_OUTPUT` environment variable or the 2347 `--gtest_output` flag to the string `"json:path_to_output_file"`, which will 2348 create the file at the given location. You can also just use the string 2349 `"json"`, in which case the output can be found in the `test_detail.json` file 2350 in the current directory. 2351 2352 The report format conforms to the following JSON Schema: 2353 2354 ```json 2355 { 2356 "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/schema#", 2357 "type": "object", 2358 "definitions": { 2359 "TestCase": { 2360 "type": "object", 2361 "properties": { 2362 "name": { "type": "string" }, 2363 "tests": { "type": "integer" }, 2364 "failures": { "type": "integer" }, 2365 "disabled": { "type": "integer" }, 2366 "time": { "type": "string" }, 2367 "testsuite": { 2368 "type": "array", 2369 "items": { 2370 "$ref": "#/definitions/TestInfo" 2371 } 2372 } 2373 } 2374 }, 2375 "TestInfo": { 2376 "type": "object", 2377 "properties": { 2378 "name": { "type": "string" }, 2379 "status": { 2380 "type": "string", 2381 "enum": ["RUN", "NOTRUN"] 2382 }, 2383 "time": { "type": "string" }, 2384 "classname": { "type": "string" }, 2385 "failures": { 2386 "type": "array", 2387 "items": { 2388 "$ref": "#/definitions/Failure" 2389 } 2390 } 2391 } 2392 }, 2393 "Failure": { 2394 "type": "object", 2395 "properties": { 2396 "failures": { "type": "string" }, 2397 "type": { "type": "string" } 2398 } 2399 } 2400 }, 2401 "properties": { 2402 "tests": { "type": "integer" }, 2403 "failures": { "type": "integer" }, 2404 "disabled": { "type": "integer" }, 2405 "errors": { "type": "integer" }, 2406 "timestamp": { 2407 "type": "string", 2408 "format": "date-time" 2409 }, 2410 "time": { "type": "string" }, 2411 "name": { "type": "string" }, 2412 "testsuites": { 2413 "type": "array", 2414 "items": { 2415 "$ref": "#/definitions/TestCase" 2416 } 2417 } 2418 } 2419 } 2420 ``` 2421 2422 The report uses the format that conforms to the following Proto3 using the 2423 [JSON encoding](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json): 2424 2425 ```proto 2426 syntax = "proto3"; 2427 2428 package googletest; 2429 2430 import "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto"; 2431 import "google/protobuf/duration.proto"; 2432 2433 message UnitTest { 2434 int32 tests = 1; 2435 int32 failures = 2; 2436 int32 disabled = 3; 2437 int32 errors = 4; 2438 google.protobuf.Timestamp timestamp = 5; 2439 google.protobuf.Duration time = 6; 2440 string name = 7; 2441 repeated TestCase testsuites = 8; 2442 } 2443 2444 message TestCase { 2445 string name = 1; 2446 int32 tests = 2; 2447 int32 failures = 3; 2448 int32 disabled = 4; 2449 int32 errors = 5; 2450 google.protobuf.Duration time = 6; 2451 repeated TestInfo testsuite = 7; 2452 } 2453 2454 message TestInfo { 2455 string name = 1; 2456 enum Status { 2457 RUN = 0; 2458 NOTRUN = 1; 2459 } 2460 Status status = 2; 2461 google.protobuf.Duration time = 3; 2462 string classname = 4; 2463 message Failure { 2464 string failures = 1; 2465 string type = 2; 2466 } 2467 repeated Failure failures = 5; 2468 } 2469 ``` 2470 2471 For instance, the following program 2472 2473 ```c++ 2474 TEST(MathTest, Addition) { ... } 2475 TEST(MathTest, Subtraction) { ... } 2476 TEST(LogicTest, NonContradiction) { ... } 2477 ``` 2478 2479 could generate this report: 2480 2481 ```json 2482 { 2483 "tests": 3, 2484 "failures": 1, 2485 "errors": 0, 2486 "time": "0.035s", 2487 "timestamp": "2011-10-31T18:52:42Z", 2488 "name": "AllTests", 2489 "testsuites": [ 2490 { 2491 "name": "MathTest", 2492 "tests": 2, 2493 "failures": 1, 2494 "errors": 0, 2495 "time": "0.015s", 2496 "testsuite": [ 2497 { 2498 "name": "Addition", 2499 "status": "RUN", 2500 "time": "0.007s", 2501 "classname": "", 2502 "failures": [ 2503 { 2504 "message": "Value of: add(1, 1)\n Actual: 3\nExpected: 2", 2505 "type": "" 2506 }, 2507 { 2508 "message": "Value of: add(1, -1)\n Actual: 1\nExpected: 0", 2509 "type": "" 2510 } 2511 ] 2512 }, 2513 { 2514 "name": "Subtraction", 2515 "status": "RUN", 2516 "time": "0.005s", 2517 "classname": "" 2518 } 2519 ] 2520 }, 2521 { 2522 "name": "LogicTest", 2523 "tests": 1, 2524 "failures": 0, 2525 "errors": 0, 2526 "time": "0.005s", 2527 "testsuite": [ 2528 { 2529 "name": "NonContradiction", 2530 "status": "RUN", 2531 "time": "0.005s", 2532 "classname": "" 2533 } 2534 ] 2535 } 2536 ] 2537 } 2538 ``` 2539 2540 IMPORTANT: The exact format of the JSON document is subject to change. 2541 2542 ### Controlling How Failures Are Reported 2543 2544 #### Turning Assertion Failures into Break-Points 2545 2546 When running test programs under a debugger, it's very convenient if the 2547 debugger can catch an assertion failure and automatically drop into interactive 2548 mode. googletest's *break-on-failure* mode supports this behavior. 2549 2550 To enable it, set the `GTEST_BREAK_ON_FAILURE` environment variable to a value 2551 other than `0`. Alternatively, you can use the `--gtest_break_on_failure` 2552 command line flag. 2553 2554 #### Disabling Catching Test-Thrown Exceptions 2555 2556 googletest can be used either with or without exceptions enabled. If a test 2557 throws a C++ exception or (on Windows) a structured exception (SEH), by default 2558 googletest catches it, reports it as a test failure, and continues with the next 2559 test method. This maximizes the coverage of a test run. Also, on Windows an 2560 uncaught exception will cause a pop-up window, so catching the exceptions allows 2561 you to run the tests automatically. 2562 2563 When debugging the test failures, however, you may instead want the exceptions 2564 to be handled by the debugger, such that you can examine the call stack when an 2565 exception is thrown. To achieve that, set the `GTEST_CATCH_EXCEPTIONS` 2566 environment variable to `0`, or use the `--gtest_catch_exceptions=0` flag when 2567 running the tests.