BetterTest is a modern, macro free, extensible testing library.
For building, exporting and installing please refer to the build instructions. Everything else can be found in the manual.
BetterTest has no macros. BetterTest needs no macros.
Some testing libraries refuse to compile when comparing two objects that can't be converted to a string. BetterTest doesn't mind. It will happily compile and run, just with a slightly less informative error message when there is a failure.
Sometimes a failed check should result in immediate termination of a test. For example, inspecting the contents of a
list should always be preceded by a check of that list's size. Accessing non-existing elements would result in
misleading out of bounds errors. Some testing libraries handle this by providing a terminating and non-terminating
version of the same function, e.g. requireEQ and expectEQ. This is not very elegant. BetterTest solves
this problem by returning an object that has a fatal method. If the check failed, calling this method will end
the test with an error message:
std::vector<int32_t> list = {1, 2, 3};
compareEQ(list.size(), 3).fatal("List has wrong size.");
compareEQ(list[0], 1);
compareEQ(list[1], 2);
compareEQ(list[2], 3);BetterTest ships with exporters for 2 broadly used formats: JSON and XML. There is also experimental support for writing to a Sqlite database. Additionally, implementing your own exporter is trivial.
BetterTest has native support for running tests in parallel using std::async. No need to write silly scripts
that simulate this by running the same executable multiple times with different parameters.