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Modern CMake for C++

You're reading from   Modern CMake for C++ Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070058
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rafał Świdziński Rafał Świdziński
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing CMake
2. Chapter 1: First Steps with CMake FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The CMake Language 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your First CMake Project 5. Section 2: Building With CMake
6. Chapter 4: Working with Targets 7. Chapter 5: Compiling C++ Sources with CMake 8. Chapter 6: Linking with CMake 9. Chapter 7: Managing Dependencies with CMake 10. Section 3: Automating With CMake
11. Chapter 8: Testing Frameworks 12. Chapter 9: Program Analysis Tools 13. Chapter 10: Generating Documentation 14. Chapter 11: Installing and Packaging 15. Chapter 12: Creating Your Professional Project 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Miscellaneous Commands

Using CTest to standardize testing in CMake

Ultimately, automated testing involves nothing other than running an executable that sets your system under test (or SUT) in a given state, performs tested operations, and checks if the results match expectations. You can think of them as a codified way of filling the blanks in the sentence "GIVEN _ WHEN _ THEN _" and checking if it's true for SUT. As you can imagine, there's more than one way of doing this—actually, there are lots. Everything depends on the kind of framework you're going to use, how you are hooking it up to your SUT, and what is the exact configuration. Even things as minuscule as the filename of your testing binary will impact the experience of the person using your software. As there are no agreed-upon standards to these things, one developer will use the name test_my_app, another will go with unit_tests, and a third will use something obscure or not provide tests at all. Discovering which...

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