Winunit Simplified Unit Testing For Native C++ Applications

摘要

These days it can be hard not to feel downright oppressed as a native code developer—it seems like the developers using the Microsoft' .NET Framework get all the cool tools! I've always been interested in good engineering practices, but I've been frustrated by so-called "engineering experts" who extol the virtues of unit testing, yet can offer little more than hand waving when asked for tool recommendations for native code. What I really wanted, and what I thought would be the easiest to integrate into an automated build system, was the equivalent of NUnit for native code. That is, I wanted to be able to make a DLL with only tests in it, and have an external test-runner that would run those tests and take care of the reporting and logging. I also wanted to be able to declare each test only once, and to have a minimum of extra code in my test DLL.