[geos-devel] Unit Tests port

[Charlie Savage]

Hi Mateusz,

Good luck with this - I think it is a great idea.  Did you see the 
follow up article that Noel wrote a couple months back?

http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0512/000103.html

He points out another framework, based loosely on cppunitlite

http://cnicholson.net/content.php?id=52

I've never used any of these frameworks, so don't have any recommendations.

For a completely different approach, you could use Python or Ruby to 
test GEOS via the SWIG bindings.  If you look in CVS, I have ported the 
C++ example to Ruby and turned it into a bunch of unit tests.  Note that 
GDAL takes this approach, it has a whole test suite written in Python.  
The advantage is that its really fast to develop tests and you have full 
access to the C++ api.  The disadvantage is there is an extra level of 
wrapping going on - which shouldn't matter for testing functionality but 
comes into play when managing memory.

Thanks,

Charlie

Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I started to think about porting JTS Unit Tests to C++ for GEOS.
> During dynamic development Unit Tests can be very helpful, they save 
> much time and help to track bugs/fixes lifetime, and many many more.
>
> So, first, I think it's important to choose appropriate
> tool - Unit-Testing Framework (UTF).
> There are many UTFs so I'm a bit confused which would be best ;-)
> I'm going to make some short research in this field but I'd like to 
> ask on the list if anyone has some prefered/recommended UTF and could 
> present its pros/cons to make some comparison.
>
> My favourites are:
> 1 - CxxTest - I have not used it, but it gots max votes in the
> article below
> http://cxxtest.sourceforge.net/
>
> 2 - Boost.Test - quite complex but powerful
> http://www.boost.org/libs/test/doc/
>
> 3 - TUT - very light and simple UTF
> http://tut-framework.sourceforge.net
>
> Here is interesting article exploring available UTFs
> (NOTE: this article is 2 years old):
> http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0412/000061.html
>
> Thanks for your comments!
> Cheers
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