Catch VS UnitTest++

Compare Catch vs UnitTest++ 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)

UnitTest++

A lightweight unit testing framework for C++ (by unittest-cpp)
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Catch UnitTest++
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17,965 546
0.9% 0.5%
9.2 0.0
5 days ago 4 months 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.

UnitTest++

Posts with mentions or reviews of UnitTest++. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Catch and UnitTest++ 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

fff - A testing micro framework for creating function test doubles

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++

CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit

Google Mock

easy_profiler - Lightweight profiler library for c++