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Boost.Test v3.7 / boost 1.67
Breaking changes
  • Now colour is on by default for the output streams that are either std::cout or std::cerr. This can be disabled by passing --no_color_ouput (or just --no_color) to the command line.
  • Adding test cases with the same name to the same test suite is reported as an error. This impacts template and parametrized test cases, as well as manually registered tests. Make sure you have no duplicate names.
New features
  • Colour output on Windows
  • Improved and clearer command line help
  • BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE now accepts a sequence of types in an std::tuple
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #PR-112 Deliberate-failure tests shouldn't be optimized
  2. #PR-118 Update VxWorks support
  3. #PR-118 [clang] Fix [-Wc++11-narrowing] error
  4. #PR-121 fix compiler warning
  5. #PR-122 Fix some fallthrough warnings with gcc >= 7
  6. #PR-125 Prevent 2 unused parameter warnings
  7. #PR-127 Silence 'unused variable' warning
  8. #PR-134 Fix stdcerr file creation on shutdown
  9. #PR-136 Change Windows.h include to all-lowercase (MinGW)
  10. #12092 Request: allow std::tuple typelists in BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE
  11. #12596 Sanitize metacharacters in test names
  12. #12597 Report tests with clashing names
  13. #12969 Problem linking print_helper_t<nullptr_t> under Clang
  14. #13058 errors.hpp in Boost Test requires warning C4946 to be off
  15. #13149 Dependency decorators on parent suites
  16. #13170 BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE don't want typedef for list
  17. #13181 Boost test can't compare classes which have begin and end but not const_iterator
  18. #13371 Use-after-free with --log_sink=file
  19. #13387 Test header fails to compile
  20. #13398 Log format JUNIT generates invalid XML files
  21. #13407 Boost.Test appears to crash under Cygwin
  22. #13435 BOOST_TEST_GLOBAL_CONFIGURATION (result report shutdown time)
  23. #13443 Boost.Test data driven test fails to compile when number of samples greater than 9
Boost.Test v3.6 / boost 1.65
Breaking changes
New features
  • VS2017 / C++17 compatibility (thanks to Daniela Engert)
  • Deprecating BOOST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE in favor of BOOST_TEST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE and BOOST_TEST_GLOBAL_CONFIGURATION. This helps separating the logic of the fixtures associated to the master test suite, from the one used for setting up the logging and reporting facility, and results in a general cleaner design.
  • It is possible to use now the BOOST_TEST check to comparing a collection with respect to regular arrays. See this section for more details.
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #PR-106 replace deprecated binders and adapters, and random_shuffle by more modern equivalents
  2. #5282 Test fixtures do not support virtual inheritance
  3. #5563 using a test macro in a global fixture crashes Boost.Test
  4. #11471 array is a sequence
  5. #11962 BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE in fixture constructor - invalid XML
  6. #12228 Some test headers fail to compile independently
  7. #12631 BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE generates incorrect output when used in BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE
  8. #13011 BOOST_TEST broken with floating point relational operators
Boost.Test v3.5 / boost 1.64
New features
  • Now Boost.Test provides customization points for logging user defined types: this solution is less intrusive than forcing the definition of operator<< for a specific type.
  • JUnit output format can now have a log-level set between success and non-fatal error, and defaults to general information.
  • JUnit output format is now more performant in case a lot of checks are done in a test module.
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #PR-107 BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS typo making throw_exception unusable under some circumstances
  2. #PR-108 Change capital variable names to lowercase
  3. #11756 boost.Test: non standards compliant use of FE_* macros (unable to compile boost test library on FPU-less arches) (reopened)
  4. #12540 Provide customisation point for printing types in tests
  5. #12712 BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE: Generate unique names by using __COUNTER__
  6. #12748 Boost.Test defines a variable called VERSION
  7. #12778 Boost.Test is broken against left shift operator in certain cases (nullptr issue)
Boost.Test v3.4 / boost 1.63
Breaking changes
  1. Now colons that appear in test case names are replaced with underscores. This affect mainly the template/typed test cases. The change is needed since the colon ':' is interpreted as a filter separators since 1.62, and it is otherwise not possible to execute the tests reported by --list_content. See #12531 for more details.
New features
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #PR-103 Syntactic change silences latest gcc warnings
  2. #PR-105 Fix unused parameter warnings/errors with gcc 6
  3. #11756 boost.Test: non standards compliant use of FE_* macros (unable to compile boost test library on FPU-less arches)
  4. #11907 Why does BOOST_TEST() treat std::string as a collection?
  5. #12339 Propose users given way to disable blink in colour output
  6. #12506 typo in Boost.test report_sink description
  7. #12507 Boost.test --report_sink parameter broken
  8. #12530 No way to find out Boost.Test version without running any tests
  9. #12531 --run_test in Boost 1.62 does not accept test names which contain ':'
Boost.Test v3.3 / boost 1.62
New features
  • Boost.Test now treats each sample of a dataset test case as being a uniquely named test case under the same test suite, which enables the (re)run of one particular sample from the command line interface. See here for more details,
  • Boost.Test learned to interpret ':' as a separator for the test filters: the string passed to --run_test generates tokens as if --run_test has been repeated, which enables the set up of several test filters through the associated environment variable BOOST_TEST_RUN_FILTERS
  • the Unit Test Framework learned to log the messages in the xUnit/JUNIT log format. See here for more details.
  • the Unit Test Framework learned to have several loggers at the same time, each of which with their own log level and log sink. See the associated command line switch --logger and corresponding environment variable BOOST_TEST_LOGGER for more details.
  • loggers are now able to indicate their default output stream and log level.
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #PR-81 Possibility to remove the support of the alternative stack at compilation time. See BOOST_TEST_DISABLE_ALT_STACK for more details.
  2. #8707 Provide Standard xUnit XML Output from Boost Test
  3. #8834 Boost Test should be able to generate report in both XML and HRF together
  4. #11128 [bb10/qnx failures] Build error
  5. #11845 Ability to generate the unique and stable test name for every data set in BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE
  6. #11859 Wrong handling of "," in Run-Parameters
  7. #12024 boost test depends on nonexisting abi::__cxa_demangle on android
  8. #12093 Boost 1.60.0: Build fails (gcc 4.6)
  9. #12103 Fix for gcc bug 58952 (getchar() is defined as a macro in uClibc)
  10. #12224 Crash on MSVC with RTTI disabled
  11. #12241 Data-driven testing over a range of std::tuple has broken
  12. #12257 Incorrect line numbers in test_units generated from test_case_gen
  13. #12378 Compilation errors with clang 3.8
Boost.Test v3.2 / boost 1.61
New features
  • now datasets support any arity, using the variadic template support of the compiler.
  • now datasets support fixtures through BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE_F, see here for more details
  • now datasets honors move semantics of the types used for samples
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #6767 Use of namespace qualifier with floating point exception functions breaks if they are macros
  2. #8905 boost/test/impl/debug.ipp: Ignores return value from WaitForSingleObject
  3. #9443 Runtime parameter Random seed for random order of test cases not respected correctly
  4. #11854 Add fixture support in BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE
  5. #11887 BOOST_TEST(3u == (std::max)(0u, 3u)) fails
  6. #11889 BOOST_DATA_TEST_CASE fails to compile for 4D and higher dimensional grids
  7. #11983 Boost Test XML Report contains unescaped XML characters
Boost.Test v3.1 / boost 1.60
New major features
  • improved API for datasets
    • it is now possible to use initializer lists
    • the use of make as top left dataset is not necessary anymore
  • improved command line interface
    • clearer help commands
    • now proposes closest matching command in case of ambiguity

    • reports invalid or ambiguous parameters: this might break existing calls when user defined commands are provided to the test module. The following calling convention should be adopted:

      • if the test module uses user supplied commands, those should be passed after an empty token --
      • all boost.test related commands should be passed before --, if any

      Example: the call 

      test_module --user-arg1=xy --log_level=test_suite

      should be rewritten to 

      test_module --log_level=test_suite -- --user-arg1=xy
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #3384 Double-quoted arguments including spaces are divided by Boost.Test.
  2. #3897 Test framework does not include <osreldate.h> before testing __FreeBSD_version (fixed in 1.59)
  3. #6032 Program options within init_unit_test_suite are incorrect when using path and whitespaces
  4. #6859 Boost.Test eats away last empty command line parameter
  5. #7257 Boost.Test alters and does not restore ostream precision after any Test macro (fixed in 1.59)
  6. #9228 Patch to make Boost.Test work with RTTI disabled (fixed in 1.59)
  7. #10317 boost::test corrupts contents of argv if a paramter contains whitespace
  8. #11279 invalid parameters should be reported
  9. #11478 Boost Test Exception Assert Failure has poor message
  10. #11571 Can't compile BOOST_TEST( ..., per_element() ) comparison of vector<string>
  11. #11623 Clang rejects some simple BOOST_TEST() statements
  12. #11624 BOOST_TEST( 0.0 == 0.0 ) fails under C++11 (GCC and Clang)
  13. #11625 BOOST_TEST( ..., per_element() ) erroneously requires collections are comparable
Boost.Test v3 / boost 1.59
New major features
Bugfixes and feature requests
  1. #2018 Error in the documentation chapter "Runtime parameters reference"
  2. #2450 equations in Floating-point comparison algorithms html are not rendered properly
  3. #2600 Unit Test Framework - missed documentation
  4. #2717 BOOST_<level>_EQUAL_COLLECTION docs typo
  5. #2759 Typos in test new-year-resolution.html
  6. #3182 _CrtSetReportFile can be used to redirect memory leaks report
  7. #3316 Access violation when trying to log from init_tests_func
  8. #3392 Boost::Test: Wrong contents for documentation of the BOOST_TEST_PASSPOINT macro
  9. #3402 Invalid define name in docummentation (duplicates ##2717)
  10. #3445 incorreect link in the docs
  11. #3463 GT is GREAT!
  12. #3542 Bug in documentation of detect_memory_leak parameter (duplicates ##2018)
  13. #3481 Boost Testing doesn't work under Sun Solaris Containers (duplicates ##3592)
  14. #3495 Boost::Test enters endless loop when running in vserver environment (duplicates ##3592)
  15. #3592 under_debugger() goes into infinite loop
  16. #3595 Typo (duplicates ##2759)
  17. #3623 Boost Test Typo (duplicates ##2759)
  18. #3664 SIGCHLD always considered fatal error
  19. #3784 Documentation errors in Execution Monitor Compilation
  20. #3785 Documentation errors in Program Execution Monitor implementation
  21. #3811 global namespace polution
  22. #3834 doc: probably incorrect HTML rendering (duplicates ##2450)
  23. #3896 erroneous documentation in boost test commandline parameter description
  24. #3932 Error in BOOST_<level>_GT description (duplicates ##3463)
  25. #3938 doc: incorrect macro name (duplicates ##2759)
  26. #3964 Documentation for BOOST_<level>_CLOSE_FRACTION is incorrect
  27. #3978 Failed to completely redirect TestLog to file, bugfix appended
  28. #3979 <boost/test/exception_safety.hpp> requires additional includes
  29. #4161 spelling mistakes...
  30. #4275 Documentation error Boost.Test (duplicates ##2717)
  31. #4389 Enable boost_test to run specific tests with any required dependent tests.
  32. #4434 BOOST_AUTO_EST_CASE typos in docs
  33. #4587 Broken link in website
  34. #4806 Invalid link (examples not showing up in documentation)
  35. #4911 ENH: boost.test output the exception real type name.
  36. #4923 Missing semicolon in documentation example
  37. #4924 Minor typo in Boost::Test docs
  38. #4982 Boost.Test has misspelled Gennadiy Rozental e-mail address
  39. #5008 Boost.Test does not do checkpointing of entry/exit of test cases
  40. #5036 Boost.Test VC memory leak report should direct to stderr
  41. #5262 Run tests by name utility doesn't support negation
  42. #5374 Errors from Boost.Test are no more shown in the Error list in VS2010
  43. #5412 XML formatter in test library processes strings with subsequences ]]> incorrectly
  44. #5563 using a test macro in a global fixture crashes Boost.Test
  45. #5582 There is a memory leak in the BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE
  46. #5599 boost::test documentation gives poor instruction
  47. #5718 broken link to unit testing framework examples
  48. #5729 Missing static_cast in fpt_limits
  49. #5870 The warning stack is not maintained
  50. #5972 Support program option to only dump the test-tree in text to output stream
  51. #6002 Failed to completely redirect TestLog to file (duplicates)
  52. #6071 Boost Test (Boost 1.46.0) GCC 4.6.1 error: ambiguous overload for ‘operator[]’
  53. #6074 warnings-as-errors not usable with Boost.test in release mode
  54. #6161 SunOS: bad putenv declaration (duplicates ##6766)
  55. #6766 incorrect declaration for putenv in config.hpp
  56. #6712 Eliminate warnings with GCC
  57. #6748 Link in the documentation points to wrong page
  58. #7046 Output full error message, not just 512 chars
  59. #7136 Correct documentation for BOOST_<level>_CLOSE_FRACTION is not reflected into released documents
  60. #7410 Test Units (Cases and Suites) in Boost.Test do not capture __FILE__ and __LINE__ at declaration point making it impossible to provide source file linking using external test management tools
  61. #7894 Boost.Test documentation contains no linking instructions
  62. #8201 Broken link in document
  63. #8272 BOOST_REQUIRE_CLOSE fails to compile with boost::multiprecision::cpp_dec_float_100 (duplicates ##11054)
  64. #8467 Incorrect link in document (duplicates ##6748)
  65. #8679 Boost.Test pollutes boost namespace with it's own enable_if/disable_if templates
  66. #8862 Boost.Test typo in documentation
  67. #8895 English error in test collection comparison
  68. #9179 Documentation: broken link (unable to find const_string.hpp/const_string_test.cpp)
  69. #9272 boost::test BOOST_<level>_GT documentation bug (duplicates ##3463)
  70. #9390 Incomplete BOOST_TEST_DONT_PRINT_LOG_VALUE
  71. #9409 Some source code examples are missing
  72. #9537 const_string_test example fails
  73. #9539 Floating-point comparison algorithms aren't formatted correctly
  74. #9581 Squassabia reference link gives 404 not found
  75. #9960 Warnings on Clang
  76. #10256 [boost test] - issue: sigaltstack
  77. #10318 Minor documentation fix
  78. #10394 Broken links in Boost Test documentation
  79. #10888 Assertion failures don't show up in the errors pane in VS 2010, VS 2012 or VS 2013 (duplicates)
  80. #11054 Floating-point comparison of multiprecision values fails if expression template is on
  81. #11347 DS identifier causes test failures in doc/examples/dataset_example*.cpp
  82. #11358 Boost.Test v3 warning could helpfully be suppressed.
  83. #11359 BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL_COLLECTIONS: can't control output operator (duplicates #9390)
  84. #11425 use-of-uninitialized-value (obsolete)
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