2016-08-02 21:37, Declan Doherty: > I've been trying out using google test as a possible replacement for our unit > test framework and have put to together this series of patches with help from > Anatoly as RFC to get peoples thoughts on migrating to google test.
Thanks for exploring new possibilities. > To facilitate google test this rfc patch set contains build system changes to > allow C++ to built within the DPDK framework, this intended for unit test code > only, and to support google test which is a C++ framework. Don't worry, I'm > not > advocating making DPDK a C++ project :) You are not advocating but the unit test must be written in C++. I don't think it is a good idea to force people to write and maintain the tests in a different language than the code it tests. > Some of the major advantages of google test that I see over continuing to use > the > current test include giving a consist feel to all tests, a powerful test > execution framework which allow individual test suites or tests to be > specified > from the command line, support for a standard xunit output which can be > integrated > into a continuous build systems, and a very powerful mocking library > which allows much more control over testing failure conditions. It would be interesting to better describe in details what is missing currently and what such a framework can bring. (I agree there is a huge room for improvements on unit tests)
