CppUnit is a
unit testing framework module for the
C++ programming language
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. It allows unit-testing of
C sources as well as C++ with minimal source modification. It was started around 2000 by Michael Feathers as a C++
port
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of
JUnit for Windows and ported to Unix by Jerome Lacoste. The library is released under the
GNU Lesser General Public License.
The framework runs tests in suites. Test result output is sent to a filter, the most basic being a simple pass or fail count printed out, or more advanced filters allowing XML output compatible with
continuous integration reporting systems.
The project has been
forked several times. The
freedesktop.org
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version a
GitHub maintained by Markus Mohrhard of the
LibreOffice project (which uses CppUnit heavily), was actively maintained until 2020, and is used in
Linux distribution
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s such as
Debian
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,
Ubuntu
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,
Gentoo and
Arch
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.
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See also
*
List of unit testing frameworks
Further reading
*
References
External links
* (freedesktop.org version)
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