Request for Feedback: cipra C++11 TAP13 library based on Test::More

[email protected] (Patrick Michael Niedzielski) Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:34:00 +0000

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Hi all,

I'm sending this email to request some comments on a C++11 library I've
written based on Test::More.  I hope this is on topic for this mailing
list.  If there are better places for this, could you direct me to them?

cipra is a header-only C++11 testing library based on Test::More.  I
know there are several active users of it, by email correspondence, so
some of you may have heard of it before.  It's a TAP13 provider and can
be used with any TAP harness.  When I was designing it, I tried to map
the semantics of Test::More to C++11, without a lot of the baggage of
other libraries, like CppUnit or Boost.Test.  

You can find cipra here <http://cipra.sourceforge.net/>.

A year and a half after the initial design, I think I can do better.
I'm planning a new version that even more closely models Test::More and
that adds new features.  I want to make sure there are not useful things
that I'm missing, though.  As such, I'd love if anyone here who also
uses C++11 and is looking for a testing library could play around with
the cipra and see if there are any things you miss from Test::More, or
any other limitations you run into.  Some examples of the comments I'm
looking for (and either have myself or have gotten by other users) are:

      * Add YAMLish output to give better debug information.
      * Implement a TAP Harness in C++, so we don't need Perl as a
        dependency just for the "prove" command.
      * Add subtests, and make sure they are thread-safe.

Thanks in advance for any comments you have.  I really appreciate any
feedback!

Cheers,
Patrick Niedzielski

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