About CMakeTest

Many languages have unit testing frameworks that can be used for testing code written in that language. For example Python has the native unittest module and C++ has Catch2 and GTest (among others). To our knowledge no such unit testing framework exists for CMake (at least that is written in native CMake) and the CMakeTest project seeks to remedy this.

It should be noted that CMake’s ctest command is not a unit testing framework for CMake code, but rather a means of integrating unit testing into a CMake build system. Using ctest is orthogonal to testing CMake modules.

Features

• 100% CMake

  • Integrates naturally into existing CMake scripts

• Integrates with CTest

  • Run build system tests alongside your built project tests

• Scoped subtests

  • Add subsections to your top-level tests to contain related tests together

• Test and section definitions supported in CMinx

  • Document your tests just like you do functions