Google Test (also known as gtest) is a unit testing library for the

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, based on the xUnit architecture.A quick introduction to the Google C++ Testing Framework
Arpan Sen, IBM DeveloperWorks, 2010-05-11, retrieved 2016-04-12 The library is released under the BSD 3-clause license. It can be compiled for a variety of

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and

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platforms, allowing unit-testing of C sources as well as C++ with minimal source modification.

Projects using Google Test

Besides being developed and used at Google, many other projects implement Google Test as well: *

Android Open Source Project Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of ...

operating system *

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projects (behind the Chrome browser and ChromeOS) *

LLVM LLVM is a set of compiler and toolchain technologies that can be used to develop a front end for any programming language and a back end for any instruction set architecture. LLVM is designed around a language-independent intermediate represen ...

compiler *

Protocol Buffers Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free and open-source cross-platform data format used to serialize structured data. It is useful in developing programs to communicate with each other over a network or for storing data. The method involves an int ...

(Google's data interchange format) * OpenCV computer vision library * Robot Operating System * Gromacs molecular dynamics simulation package

Related tools

Google Test UI is a test runner that runs test binary, allows to track progress via a progress bar, and displays a list of test failures. Google Test UI is written in C#. Additionally, a feature-complete

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extension exists with Google Test Adapter.

References

External links

Google Test

Google Test Primer documentation

Gtest
C/C++ Conan package
A quick introduction to the Google C++ Testing Framework
Arpan Sen, IBM DeveloperWorks, 2010-05-11

Anthony Vallone, 2014-01-21 C++ libraries Extreme programming Freedesktop.org Unit testing frameworks Software using the BSD license

Projects using Google Test

Related tools

See also

References

Further reading

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