[LLVMdev] Any objections to my importing GoogleMock to go with GoogleTest in LLVM?

[Reid Kleckner]

I don't really have a strong opinion, but it ended up being fairly
controversial in Chromium:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/-KH_IP0rIWQ

It might occupy a space like GTest does for us today, which is used for
things like Support where we often can't write a good lit test.


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>wrote:
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>> I have some concrete use cases in testing the pass manager where it will
>> allow the tests of this API to be more thorough, less verbose, and easier
>> to maintain. I'm not claiming to be the biggest fan of some features in
>> GoogleMock, but on the whole, I think it's better than the alternative and
>> will allow more careful testing of C++ APIs where the interesting part is
>> the API itself.
>>
>
> Emphatic +1
>
> One of the major problems with unit testing (in general and in LLVM in
> particular) is that it's difficult to isolate coupled components from each
> other. A good mocking framework makes this much easier and thus can help us
> create more unit tests in the long run. GoogleMock is popular,
> battle-proven and is the natural companion for GTest.
>
> Eli
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