On 02/08/2016 22:52, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-08-02 21:37, Declan Doherty: [..] > 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.
In principle I agree, but in practice I don't see any alternative. All the purely C-based frameworks I've (independently of Declan) tried don't have the same flexibility as the C++ ones. > 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) From my own perspective, mocking of functions is the main thing that is missing. When testing KeepAlive this allowed me to reroute rte_malloc() calls to the OS malloc() rather than having to startup/teardown the hugepage subsystem. ..Remy
