Green Bar for C++ ^

Automated unit testing supports high quality of program code, even under inevitable change and refactoring. As a side effect, unit tested code often has a better structure. Java developers are used to unit testing because of JUnit and its tight integration into IDEs like Eclipse. C++ programmers lacked the tool support for easy-to-use unit testing, even though the language's complexity asks for it. Refactoring and simplifying C++ code without tests is very hard. No longer! IFS created a simple to use CUTE (C++ Unit Testing Easier) and integrated it into Eclipse CDT similar to JUnit.

• install CUTE plugin from http://ifs.hsr.ch/cute/updatesite/
  • in Eclipse: Help->Software Updates->Find and Install->Search for new Features to Install->New Remote Site....

NB: you must have boost headers in your standard include path or add them manually to your CUTE project preferences.

Green Bar - running tests ^

Red Bar - navigate failing tests ^

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Unfortunately my ACCU Overload #75 article on CuTe was published in October 2006, before I was aware of it and able to "finish" work on CUTE ( C++ Unit Testing Easier )

Download CUTE for stand-alone or Visual Studio use ^

Here comes the zip file of Cute 1.0.0 with solutions/projects for visual studio 2003/2005 and Eclipse 3.2 with CDT 3.1.1:

• Download Cute as zip - ca. 60kB
  • this include a test suite and an example with deliberately failing tests
  • to use cute, just use the header-only distribution in cute_lib
• Download Cute as tar.gz - ca. 30kB
  • both versions have identical content, e.g. visual studion solution files for trying things out
  • Eclipse Users better use the above update-site for the plugin, unless you want to change or update cute itself, where the test suite included here can be useful

• see UsingCuTe and CuTe for further instructions