Boost.Test VS Unity Test API

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

Boost.Test

The reference C++ unit testing framework (TDD, xUnit, C++03/11/14/17) (by boostorg)
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Boost.Test Unity Test API
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165 3,699
2.4% 2.6%
6.4 7.5
4 days ago 11 days ago
C++ C
Boost Software License 1.0 MIT License
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Boost.Test

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Boost.Test yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 Boost.Test and Unity Test API you can also consider the following projects:

Google Test - GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework

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)

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

Google Mock

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

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

CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit

fff - A testing micro framework for creating function test doubles

ut - C++20 μ(micro)/Unit Testing Framework