Has anybody else other than me used "libraries of tests" i.e. a group
of tests that are included as a pre-compiled library.
This issue comes up for me in an embedded environment where you can't
run all the tests you want at the same time -- insufficient memory space
-- and having a library of tests is one approach to cut down development
time -- also is useful with multi-core and multi-processor clusters --
in principle you could even have the library of tests stored in "FLASH"
The issue is that since the tests are objects, they are "not required"
to satisfy any linker issues so that the "test objects" never get pulled in.
The reason why I ask is that we solved the issue (with CPPUnitLite) by
having a
ThisTestGroupLibrary_LibraryName__OperatesATThisLevel(local_run_level )
function included in each library
and used (a GUI controlled) command line parameter to force a linkage to
ThisTestGroupLibrary_LibraryName__OperatesATThisLevel(local_run_level )
and bring in the library.
Thus at one stroke, we had the ability of having different "run levels"
with different groups of tests and the ability to have libraries of tests.
Mike Smith
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