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Posted by rod

The CxxTest docs give a cumbersome, multi-project-with-makefile procedure for using CxxTest in Visual Studio. Here's something better

The CxxTest User Guide suggests one way of intergrating CxxTests with the visual studio IDE involving multiple projects per test suite. This article covers an alternative, single project approach.

The setup was done with Visual Studio 2005 Express. Your mileage may vary on other versions.

 Create a new win32 console project, e.g., TestCxx, in the solution. Make it an empty project with no precompiled header.
 Add a new header file, e.g., TestTest.h, to the Header Files of the project.
 Open the new .h file and add some CxxTests, e.g.,
#include "cxxtest/TestSuite.h"
 
class MyTestSuite : public CxxTest::TestSuite 
{
public:
    void testAddition( void )
    {
       TS_ASSERT( 1 + 1 > 1 );
       TS_ASSERT_EQUALS( 1 + 1, 2 );
    }

    void testMultiplication( void )
    {
       TS_ASSERT_EQUALS( 2 * 2, 5 );
    }
};

 Right click on the .h file and select the Property page.
 In the property page go to the Custom Build Step section. Select the Command Line entry and add the appropriate cxxtestgen line, such as
python path/to/cxxtest/cxxtestgen.py --runner=ParenPrinter 
                                        -o TestTest.cpp TestTest.h
Adjust as needed for your python/perl and cxxtest setup. Be sure to use the "--runner=ParenPrinter" option, as this will produce messages that are clickable in the output window
 Put your .cpp filename (from the -o in cxxtestgen) in the Outputs list. For extra credit, add something pithy to the Description line, like ...

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