Catch VS Unity Test API

Compare Catch vs Unity Test API and see what are their differences.

Catch

A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Catch1.x branch) (by catchorg)

Unity Test API

Simple Unit Testing for C (by ThrowTheSwitch)
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Catch Unity Test API
55 15
17,898 3,656
1.3% 3.3%
9.2 7.4
2 days ago 1 day ago
C++ C
Boost Software License 1.0 MIT License
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Catch

Posts with mentions or reviews of Catch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
  • How can I check the execution time of a program rendered in SFML?
    3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 5 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2 (for unit testing, need to do timing yourself)
  • `DestroyJavaVM()` failing on OpenJ9?
    2 projects | /r/javahelp | 22 Apr 2023
    ```c++ // https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/tree/Catch1.x // https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/releases/download/v1.12.2/catch.hpp
  • How do you use the Catch testing library?
    4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 9 Apr 2023
    Include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(Catch2 GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2.git GIT_TAG v3.3.2 ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(Catch2)
    4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 9 Apr 2023
    set(CATCH_VERSION "" CACHE STRING "") Include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(Catch2 URL https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/archive/refs/tags/v${CATCH_VERSION}.tar.gz ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(Catch2) target_link_libraries( Catch2::Catch2)
  • Trying to add tests for my cmake for catch2 with ctest.
    2 projects | /r/cmake | 27 Feb 2023
    Another possible issue would be the include(Catch) in your root cmakelists.txt . To include Catch there it must be part of your module path. Otherwise you have to include the path to that catch2 cmake file. Here is that file in their repository - https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/blob/devel/extras/Catch.cmake . I recon that CMake doesn't know about this file since you call find_package(Catch2 REQUIRED) later in your subdirectory
  • Seeking Improve Advice on my C++ Network Library
    7 projects | /r/cpp | 6 Feb 2023
    Unit test coverage by Catch2 framework.
  • snitch v1.0 -- A lightweight C++20 testing framework
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 16 Jan 2023
    Looks good but currently at least REQUIRE (most likely all the other checks too but I didn't test that) fails to correctly evaluate some expressions, due to fundamental problems with macros. One example is described in this issue of the Catch2 repository.
  • IDE for CPP(leetcode)
    4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 3 Jan 2023
    However, you can use a unit test framework like GoogleTest or Catch2 whic creates a main() function for you which allows you to run single functions, as long as they have been created through some preprocessor macros. Then you can use a VS Code test adapter like this or this which may let you run a single test by right clicking it directly in VS Code.
  • CPM.cmake to make CMake's FetchContent easier
    4 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2022
    include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare( Catch2 GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2.git GIT_TAG v3.0.0-preview4 ) FetchContent_Declare( fmt GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt.git GIT_TAG 9.1.0 ) FetchContent_Declare( scnlib GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/eliaskosunen/scnlib.git GIT_TAG v1.1.2 ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(Catch2 fmt scnlib)
  • New to C++
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 20 Dec 2022
    Make sure you write unit tests, I use gtest but catch2 is also good.

Unity Test API

Posts with mentions or reviews of Unity Test API. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Catch and Unity Test API you can also consider the following projects:

Google Test - GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework

doctest - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20/23 single-header testing framework

Boost.Test - The reference C++ unit testing framework (TDD, xUnit, C++03/11/14/17)

CppUTest - CppUTest unit testing and mocking framework for C/C++

Google Mock

CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit

benchmark - A microbenchmark support library

esp-idf - Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.

fff - A testing micro framework for creating function test doubles

UnitTest++ - A lightweight unit testing framework for C++