HISTORY.md

xTests - History

30th January 2025 - 0.26.0-beta3

• added support (including coloured output) for (in)equality testing of UDTs;
• temp_directory now finds and deletes sockets (in addition to files);
• fixed defect (when on UNIX) in temp_file;
• now ensures that does not emit ANSI colour sequences when running on Windows on an old terminal that does not support them;

31st December 2024 - 0.26.0-beta1

• now uses stlsoft::integral_traits<> for integer test macros (in C++) to allow for custom integral types to be tested;
• temp_file now takes a hint_dir parameter to allow specification of directory for (temporary) file;
• added missing test macros XTESTS_TEST_FLOATINGPOINT_GREATER(), XTESTS_TEST_FLOATINGPOINT_GREATER_OR_EQUAL(), XTESTS_TEST_FLOATINGPOINT_LESS(), XTESTS_TEST_FLOATINGPOINT_LESS_OR_EQUAL();
• added macro XTESTS_COMMANDLINE_PARSE_HELP_OR_VERBOSITY(), which allows for a unified command-line parsing in test programs;
• added terse forms of macros, available by including xtests/terse-api.h;
• XTESTS_COMMANDLINE_PARSE_VERBOSITY() now also recognises, if the command-line argument "--verbosity= . . ." is not found, the enviroment variables "XTESTS_VERBOSITY" and "TEST_VERBOSITY";
• added test programs test.scratch.all_failure_messages, test.scratch.basics2, test.scratch.custom_integral_types,
• substantial internal refactoring;
• minor tidying to CMake facilities;
• minor improvements to examples;
• minor improvements to project boilerplate files;
• updated STLSoft constructs, incl. macros;

18th November 2024 - 0.25.4

• added CMake MSVC MT support;

25th October 2024 - 0.25.3

• Fix to colour output at high verbosity levels;

22nd October 2024 - 0.25.2

• Added and applied CMake functions for examples and test programs;
• Some refactoring in main header include/xtests/xtests.h;
• VC++ 19+ warnings;
• Fixed vulnerability in length-limited string comparisons;
• Renamed project test.scratch.string_slices.c => test.unit.string_slices.c;

20th October 2024 - 0.25.0

• NO CHANGES;

18th October 2024 - 0.24.0-alpha7

• Coloured output now bold;
• Minor fixes to CMake build scripts;

17th October 2024 - 0.24.0-alpha6

• Expanded shwild integration (including CMake detection);
• Significant enhancement and refactoring around use of CMake;
• Added coloured output for test-case / runner names;
• General tidying;
• Compatibility with legacy versions of Visual C++;

15th October 2024 - 0.24.0-alpha5

• Refactored common aspects of example and test main() functions;
• Language/compiler compatibility fixes, including MinGW-W64 compatibility;
• CMake build scripts enhancements;

5th August 2024 - 0.24.0-alpha4

• compatibility with STLSoft 1.11.1-alpha13 or later;

4th August 2024 - 0.24.0-alpha3

• minimal coloured console output;

4th August 2024 - 0.24.0-alpha2

• fixed VC++ / CMake configuration;

3rd August 2024 - 0.24.0-alpha1

• XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_EQUAL_EXACT(), XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_NOT_EQUAL(), XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_GREATER(), XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_GREATER_OR_EQUAL(), XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_LESS(), XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_LESS_OR_EQUAL() are all implemented in terms of _Generic (where supported) in C compilation units in order to be able to report the expected and actual values upon failure (as is done in C++ compilation units)
• general tidying

14th July 2024 - 0.23.1

• Various CMake standardisations and simplifications

9th July 2024 - 0.22.1

• Visual C++ 17 (2022) compatibility
• CMake Windows compatibility
• Small improvements for temp_directory and temp_file
• now depends on STLSoft 1.11

28th January 2024 - 0.21.4

• Clang 14+ compatibility
• CMake scripts improvements
• now depends on STLSoft 1.10.6

28th January 2024 - 0.21.3

• Clang 14+ compatibility

28th January 2024 - 0.21.2

• CMake support minor improvements;

11th January 2024 - 0.21.1

• fixed include of STLSoft header-file in presence of shwild

2nd January 2024 - 0.21.0

• added XTESTS_TEST_MULTIBYTE_STRING_MATCHES() that, in the presence of the shwild library, provides pattern matching

2nd January 2024 - 0.20.5

• completed CMake support, with flexible mechanism to select STLSoft dependency

14th December 2023 - 0.20.4

• added CMake support
• added Doxygen
• added makefile(s) for GCC generic version
• fix to xtests::cpp::util::temp_directory
• fix defect in example

13th December 2020 - 0.20.3

• fixed xtests::cpp::util::temp_directory dtor semantics for EmptyOnClose and RemoveOnClose
• compatibility with Visual Studio 2019 (16.8.2)

30th July 2020 - 0.20.2

• added implicit-link support for VC++ 15 and VC++16
• added makefile(s) for VC++ 15 and VC++16
• various makefile improvements
• GCC 8 compatibility

12th October 2019 - 0.20.1

• added xtests::cpp::util::temp_file ctor that takes a callback function that is used to provide initial contents of the file
• added VC++ 10 project and solution files
• fixed range comparison tests
• fixing up VC++-specific non-standard token-pasting
• removed dependency on/discrimination for STLSoft 1.10 delta (though now works perfectly well with STLSoft 1.10 proper)

22nd July 2016 - 0.18.9

• fix to 0.18.8 release
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.128
• bundles shwild 0.10.1

22nd July 2016 - 0.18.8

• changed no-throw declaration from stlsoft_throw_0() to STLSOFT_NOEXCEPT
• support for Borland C++ 6.2x
• added makefiles for Borland 5.82, 6.1x, 6.2x
• significant refactoring of structure of makefiles
• strict C-compilation compatibility
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.128
• bundles shwild 0.10.1

7th October 2015 - 0.18.4

• added temp_directory and temp_file utility classes
• now supports test cases that have void* param (for setup param)
• support for cdecl and stdcall test cases
• support for Clang
• support for VC++ 11
• support for VC++ 12
• support for VC++ 14
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.121
• bundles shwild 0.10.1

1st March 2013 - 0.17.1

• added XTESTS_TEST_MULTIBYTE_STRING_SLICE_EQUAL() / XTESTS_TEST_WIDE_STRING_SLICE_EQUAL() macros for testing string slices
• expected/unexpected exception event messages now include file+line
• refactoring of implementation
• tidying up of makefile gripes
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.117
• bundles shwild 0.9.18

16th February 2013 - 0.16.6

• improved handling of booleans
• VC++ 11 compatibility
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.115
• bundles shwild 0.9.18

2nd December 2011 - 0.16.3

• workaround for strange behaviour (probably code-generation fault) in GCC 4.2 on Mac OS-X 10.7
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.111

30th November 2011 - 0.16.2

• various minor modifications for compatibility with recent versions of GCC 4.X
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.111

13th August 2010 - 0.16.1

• added function pointer testing, via XTESTS_TEST_FUNCTION_POINTER_EQUAL() and XTESTS_TEST_FUNCTION_POINTER_NOT_EQUAL()
• added implicit-link support for VC++ 10
• fixes for 64-bit compatibility
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.100

21st June 2010 - 0.15.2

• minimal compatibility enhancements
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.99

4th April 2010 - 0.15.1

• added in-range testing, via XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_EQUAL_ANY_IN_RANGE() and XTESTS_TEST_INTEGER_EQUAL_ANY_NOT_IN_RANGE()
• added XTESTS_ARRAY_END_POST
• VC6 compatibility for signed __int16, unsigned __int16, & signed __int1632
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.97

20th January 2010 - 0.14.4

• workaround for erroneous Borland compilation error
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.89

19th January 2010 - 0.14.3

• removed erroneous debug information in UNIXem release builds
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.89

11th August 2009 - 0.14.2

• workaround for minor warning
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.87

13th July 2009 - 0.14.1

• added ability to display a summary of only the first case to fail
• renamed and add to enumerators of xtests_verbosity_t
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.85

8th July 2009 - 0.13.3

• workaround for Intel C/C++ compiler defect
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.85

16th June 2009 - 0.13.2

• added XTESTS_REQUIRE(), to allow testing to stop after test failure, to avoid contract violations
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.85

1st May 2009 - 0.12.1

• added XTESTS_FLOATINGPOINT_FACTOR_SCOPE scoping class
• added XTESTS_TEST_FLOATINGPOINT_NOT_EQUAL_EXACT, XTESTS_TEST_FLOATINGPOINT_NOT_EQUAL_APPROX, and XTESTS_TEST_FLOATINGPOINT_NOT_EQUAL test macros
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.78

25th April 2009 - 0.11.5

• fixed defect in XTESTS_START_RUNNER_WITH_REPORTER_AND_STREAM_AND_FLAGS_AND_SETUP_FNS()
• added implicit link support for Intel C/C++ 10 & 11
• allows stream to be NULL, and assumes stdout if no reporter specified
• NOTE: requires STLSoft 1.9.77

17th April 2009 - 0.11.4

• changes to defn of exceptions & RTTI, for conformance to other library (e.g. Pantheios) makefile templates
• now allows compilation absent RTTI
• NOTE: now requires STLSoft 1.9.77

15th April 2009 - 0.11.3

• fixed defect in internal snprintf() abstraction, which faults on Linux
• NOTE: now requires STLSoft 1.9.77

9th March 2009 - 0.11.2

• fixed defect in core, whereby snprintf() overrun led to fault
• NOTE: now requires STLSoft 1.9.76

6th March 2009 - 0.11.1

• added setup / teardown functionality
• NOTE: now requires STLSoft 1.9.75

13th February 2009 - 0.10.4

• added support for Borland 5.9.x and 6.1.x
• added workaround for over-eager warnings in GCC 4.3
• NOTE: now requires STLSoft 1.9.74

1st February 2009 - 0.10.3

• added ability to suppress reporting of empty test cases
• added XTESTS_START_RUNNER_WITH_FLAGS()
• now uses Windows debugging support when emulating UNIX on Windows

27th January 2009 - 0.10.2

Numerous substantial enhancements, including the following:

• added facilities for length-limiting string comparison
• added missing macros for case-insensitive string inequality
• added full support for custom reporter functionality
• corrected defect whereby s/uint64 integer failures were not counted towards the total
• fixed various minor defects

29th December 2008 - 0.9.3

• added XTESTS_TEST_ENUM_TRUE() and XTESTS_TEST_ENUM_FALSE()

18th November 2008 - 0.9.2

• added XTESTS_TEST_BOOLEAN_TRUE() and XTESTS_TEST_BOOLEAN_FALSE()
• avoid precipitating warnings about unused return values

25th October 2008 - 0.9.1

• added xtestsComparisonApproxNotEqual comparison enumerator, and adjusted all comparison operations accordingly
• added xtests_testMultibyteStringContains() and xtests_testWideStringContains(), and all corresponding test macros
• cleared up some wrong (but benign) code exercised when compiling with exception-support switched off

25th October 2008 - 0.8.7

• fixed defective != comparison of signed & unsigned 64-bit integers

19th October 2008 - 0.8.6

• added more integer specialisations of xtests_failure_reporter<>

23rd August 2008 - 0.8.5

• added call to XTESTS_TEST_PASSED() when an expected exception is received
• added more integer specialisations of xtests_failure_reporter<>
• fixed a defect in the approximate comparison of negative floating-point numbers

10th August 2008 - 0.8.4

• fixed a bug in the reporting mechanism for boolean enforcement failures

16th June 2008 - 0.8.2

• elimination of compiler warning on VC++ 8+

5th June 2008 - 0.8.1

• added ability to specify output stream (FILE*) when starting a test runner

4th June 2008 - 0.7.4

• addition of missing makefiles in the distro

20th May 2008 - 0.7.3

• minor weakening of string comparison
• bundles shwild 0.9.17

11th May 2008 - 0.7.2

• minor compatibility enhancements

4th May 2008 - 0.7.1

• added Win64-compatibility

29th April 2008 - 0.6.5

• added compatibity with heterogeneous string types to xtests_writeFailMessage()

25th April 2008 - 0.6.4

• fix for Sun Pro compatibility

22nd April 2008 - 0.6.3

• fix for Borland compilation error with widestring macros

21st April 2008 - 0.6.2

• added makefiles for VC9, GCC 4.1 and GCC 4.2
• altered library names to use UNIX libXXXX naming convention in UNIX builds

20th April 2008 - 0.6.1

• added evaluation of heterogeneous string types, using shim-based type-tunneling

19th April 2008 - 0.5.2

• added implicit link support for VC++ 9

16th April 2008 - 0.5.1

• added explicit support for character tests
• fixed bug in formatting of != tests

13th April 2008 - 0.4.1

• added explicit support for boolean tests

18th March 2008 - 0.3.3

• fix for wide string support

17th March 2008 - 0.3.2

• minor bug fix to prevent confusion about threading models on some UNIX operating systems

15th March 2008 - 0.3.1

• added wide string comparison
• enhanced multibyte string comparison

13th March 2008 - 0.2.2

• minor bug fix in definition of XTEST_TEST_POINTER_???? macros

12th March 2008 - 0.2.1

• added support for pointer testing
• enhanced string testing
• fixed implicit link bug

24th February 2008 - 0.1.15

• fixed compilation bug when exception-handling support not enabled

23rd February 2008 - 0.1.14

• fix in main header for bug encountered in C compilation units
• enhancements to test & example programs

23rd February 2008 - 0.1.13

• minor bug fix for Borland compilation

22nd February 2008 - 0.1.12

This is the first released version.

All history before this day is moot!