ut VS Boost.Test

Compare ut vs Boost.Test 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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ut Boost.Test
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ut

Posts with mentions or reviews of ut. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.
  • [C++20][safety] static_assert is all you need (no leaks, no UB)
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 10 Apr 2023
    I don't think stepping through static_assert is a thing? Curious if it is, though. Since constexpr is either run-time or compile-time and static_assert is not a poor man's debugging facility could be to -Dstatic_assert(...) assert(__VA_ARGS__) and gdb the code. Alternatively, a more refined solution would be to use an UT framework (for example https://github.com/boost-ext/ut) which helps with that. IMHO, TDD can also limit the requirement of stepping into the code and with gurantees that the code is memory safe and UB safe there is less need for sanitizers and valgrind etc. depending on the coverage.
  • snatch -- A lightweight C++20 testing framework
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 18 Oct 2022
    Have you compared with Boost UT, or was this targeted at keeping things catch2-like?
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 18 Oct 2022
    It was not easy, I had to modify Boost UT to get it to run my tests. It doesn't support type-parametrized tests when the type parameter is non-copiable, which was the case for me. This is a symptom of a larger issue, which is that it relies on std::apply and std::tuple to generate the type-parametrized tests, which in turns requires instantiating the tuple and the contained objects (even though these instances aren't actually used; eh). That's a no go for me, since I need to carefully monitor when instance are created, and this was throwing off my test code. I had to effectively disable these checks to get it to run without failures. Then there was a similar issue with expect(), which doesn't work if part of the expression is non-copiable. I reported these issues to them.
  • [C++20] New way of meta-programming?
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 5 Sep 2022
    https://github.com/boost-ext/ut (for better user interface when defining tests without macros)
  • Getting started with Boost in 2022
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 14 Apr 2022
    https://github.com/boost-ext/ut from Kris Jusiak is worth checking
  • How to unit test
    8 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 9 Feb 2022
  • Calculate Your Code Performance
    5 projects | dev.to | 23 Oct 2021
    C++: C++ has quite a number of benchmarking libraries some of the recent ones involving C++ 20's flexibility. The most notable being Google Bench and UT. C does not have many specific benchmarking libraries, but you can easily integrate C code with C++ benchmarking libraries in order to test the performance of your C code.
  • Benchmarking Code
    6 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2021
    UT
  • Another C++ unit testing framework without macros
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 16 Apr 2021
    By Boost.UI you mean this?
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 16 Apr 2021
    In Boost.UT there is a number of different styles to add a parametrized test case. All of them are pretty cryptic bue to heavy isage of oeverloaded operators of custom "non-public" classes. Except for the for-loop method, in all other methods the list of parameter values goes after the test procedure definition. I find this inconvenient, as I want to see list of parameter value next to the test name. This is what I used to from the times I was coding a lot of unit tests in C#.

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.

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing ut and Boost.Test 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)

Google Mock

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

CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit

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

benchmark - A microbenchmark support library

Unity Test API - Simple Unit Testing for C

hayai - C++ benchmarking framework

FakeIt - C++ mocking made easy. A simple yet very expressive, headers only library for c++ mocking.

utest.h - 🧪 single header unit testing framework for C and C++