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Marius Bancila
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Marius Bancila is a software engineer with two decades of experience in developing solutions for line of business applications and more. He is the author of The Modern C++ Challenge and Template Metaprogramming with C++. He works as a software architect and is focused on Microsoft technologies, mainly developing desktop applications with C++ and C#. He is passionate about sharing his technical expertise with others and, for that reason, he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for C++ and later developer technologies since 2006. Marius lives in Romania and is active in various online communities.
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Getting started with Boost.Test

Boost.Test is one of the oldest and most popular C++ testing frameworks. It provides an easy-to-use set of APIs for writing tests and organizing them into test cases and test suites. It has good support for asserting, exception handling, fixtures, and other important features required for a testing framework.

Throughout the next few recipes, we will explore the most important features it has that enable you to write unit tests. In this recipe, we will see how to install the framework and create a simple test project.

Getting ready

The Boost.Test framework has a macro-based API. Although you only need to use the supplied macros for writing tests, a good understanding of macros is recommended if you want to use the framework well.

How to do it...

In order to set up your environment to use Boost.Test, do the following:

  1. Download the latest version of the Boost library from http://www.boost.org/.
  2. Unzip the content of...
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Marius Bancila

Marius Bancila is a software engineer with two decades of experience in developing solutions for line of business applications and more. He is the author of The Modern C++ Challenge and Template Metaprogramming with C++. He works as a software architect and is focused on Microsoft technologies, mainly developing desktop applications with C++ and C#. He is passionate about sharing his technical expertise with others and, for that reason, he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for C++ and later developer technologies since 2006. Marius lives in Romania and is active in various online communities.
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