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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would also suggest to look towards gtest/gmock.
It's widely adopted, works with cmake out of the box, has integrations with
popular IDEs and a good choice of supporting tools like parallelized
runners, GUI inspectors etc.
You can also use gmock separately from gtest.

Andrew

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:47 AM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Sylwester-
>
> I haven't used HippoMocks but in general, adding QA tests is always
> welcome as long as they run as expected under the Fedora docker we use for
> online QA with GitLab.
>
> The downside of HippoMocks from what I can gather is that the project
> appears abandoned.  If I'm incorrect here, can you link to the current
> repository/documentation?
>
> Thanks-
> Seth
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 2:49 PM Sylwester Kocjan <s.kocjan@xxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have two questions regarding QA code for KiCad and I'd like to ask for
>> your comments about them:
>>
>> 1. I reviewed contents of qa directory in KiCad repo and I saw some
>> issues that can be fixed.
>>    Could you please take a look at the summary and let me know if they
>> are valid:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14QAy9rRIHqRr4YuXfQO2GicURAG1BgJmwKe7B1H6xXI/edit#gid=326687467
>>
>> 2. What do you think about adding mocking library to the KiCad code? I
>> found that PGM object is mocked few times
>>
>>    https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4446#note_342766728
>>
>>    A libary for creating mocks would simplify creting the tests. In this
>> MR and commit:
>>
>>    https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/542
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/542/diffs?commit_id=b7b401d7128057831c049a723ffc895453d65a0e
>>
>>    there is added HippoMocks, a single-header mocking tool and it does
>> it's job.
>>    If that's ok, it could help to get rid of these duplicated mocks
>> (maybe even hand-written mocks at all).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sylwester
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