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Google Test integration

RapidCheck comes with support for integrating with Google Test and allows you to easily create properties that are also Google Test test cases.

Usage

This support is available through the extras/gtest module. In order to enable it, pass -DRC_ENABLE_GTEST=ON to your CMake flags while building RapidCheck. Then you can either directly add the extras/gtest/include directory to your include path or link against the rapidcheck_gtest target in your CMakeLists.txt. You can then simply #include <rapidcheck/gtest.h>. Note that rapidcheck/gtest.h needs to be included after gtest/gtest.h.

Reference

RC_GTEST_PROP(TestCase, TestName, (args...))

Defines a RapidCheck property as a Google Test test. This macro essentially works the same as the Google Test TEST macro but it includes an extra parenthesized list of arguments that will be generated by RapidCheck, just like when using rc::check:

RC_GTEST_PROP(MyTestCase,
              copyOfStringIsIdenticalToOriginal,
              (const std::string &str)) {
  const auto strCopy = str;
  RC_ASSERT(strCopy == str);
}

The parenthesis around the argument list are required because of how the preprocessor works and can not be omitted. This also means that if you don't want any arguments generated, you need to include an empty set of parenthesis:

// If you don't have any arguments, you have to have empty parentheses
RC_GTEST_PROP(MyTestCase, inRangeValueIsInRange, ()) {
  const auto range = *rc::gen::arbitrary<std::pair<int, int>>();
  const auto x = *rc::gen::inRange(range.first, range.second);
  RC_ASSERT(x >= range.first);
  RC_ASSERT(x < range.second);
}

RC_GTEST_FIXTURE_PROP(Fixture, Name, (args...))

Analogous to the Google Test TEST_F macro, defines a RapidCheck property as a Google Test fixture based test. Fixture names the test fixture class. The fixture will be reinstantiated for every test case that is run. Otherwise, this macro works the same as RC_GTEST_PROP.

Since this macro is implemented in terms of Google Test's TEST macro and Google Test does not allow mixing of TEST and TEST_F for the same test case, test cases, a property tied to a fixture named Fixture will be registered under a test case named Fixed_RapidCheck. This is usually not a big issue but is something to be aware of, in particular when filtering Google Test case names from the command line.

Assertions

RapidCheck will treat any exception as a property failure so you should be able to use any assertion mechanism that signals failures as exceptions. However, Google Test assertions are not implemented using exceptions which means that you should avoid them and use RapidCheck assertions such as RC_ASSERT in your RapidCheck properties instead.