[lldb-dev] unit testing C++ code in LLDB

[Zachary Turner]

We should probably use gtest for this.  LLVM already has lots of examples
of how to do this.  Check the llvm\unittests folder.


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Todd Fiala <tfiala at google.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Sometimes I have smaller bits of code I'd like to test in LLDB as I'm
> developing them (i.e. TDD-style) that are C++ and won't be exposed directly
> via Python.  I'm not sure I've seen any facilities in the LLDB tests for
> adding such tests.  Essentially I'd want to do something like a gtest or
> cppunit test.
>
> Do we have any mechanism for doing that currently?  If we do, what is it?
>  If we don't, how about adding some mechanism to do it after we figure out
> how we'd like to approach it?  Or, if you have thoughts on a good, simple
> way to do it from Python that doesn't require extra Python bindings just to
> do it, that'd be fine by me as well.
>
> If we want to take a concrete example, here is one: I'm adding a NamedPipe
> class under the host dir.  I'd like to make some simple tests for it, and
> test it under Linux, Windows and MacOSX.  In the case of Windows, it would
> be the only real way for me to test that it's behaving exactly as I want at
> this point.  This isn't the only time I've wanted C++-level tests at a
> fairly fine granularity, but it's a good example of it.
>
> Any thoughts?
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