The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-04/recipe-07. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.5 (and higher), and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Ideally, the test set should take only a short time, in order to motivate developers to run the test set often, and to make it possible (or easier) to test every commit (changeset). However, some tests might take longer or get stuck (for instance, due to a high file I/O load), and we may need to implement timeouts to terminate tests that go overtime, before they pile up and delay the entire test and deploy pipeline. In this recipe, we will demonstrate one way of implementing timeouts, which can be adjusted separately for each test.
