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[Sylwester Kocjan <s.kocjan@xxxxx>]

Hello,

On 17/01/2021 09:47, Alex wrote:
> ...GTest, Doctest and Catch2, (...) they'll all get the job done

They are all testing frameworks without mocking capability. We have 
already Boost.Test based tests and I find it unnecessary effort to 
migrate them, and alone
they don't solve the problem.


On 17/01/2021 09:47, Alex wrote:
> I wasn't aware that GMock could operate separately from GTest, but if 
it can, that's pretty neat.

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:15 AM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can also use gmock separately from gtest.

Since some time gmock is a part of gtest. Any search results in the 
topic of gmock with another testing frameworks are quite old. I think 
there is a risk that it will not work.


On 17/01/2021 09:47, Alex wrote:
> Catch is a single header

I was instructed to avoid introducing new dependencies, hence my initial 
choice of single-header HippoMocks:

https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4446#note_445185505

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:47 AM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The downside of HippoMocks from what I can gather is that the project 
appears abandoned.

Sadly, this is true. There are also other choices, but I don't have any 
hands-on experience with them and I don't know which one to choose:
- http://turtle.sourceforge.net/
- https://github.com/tpounds/mockitopp
- https://github.com/rollbear/trompeloeil

Best regards,
Sylwester


On 17/01/2021 09:47, Alex wrote:
> I've used GTest, Doctest and Catch2, and they'll all get the job done; 
> Doctest is definitely the fastest to compile, but also has the least 
> of features; Catch and GTest have the most features.
>
> I wasn't aware that GMock could operate separately from GTest, but if 
> it can, that's pretty neat.
>
> I believe Doctest and Catch both are single header - I know at least 
> Catch is a single header; but I think it makes sense to use a git 
> submodule in this case.
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:15 AM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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