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#
# Copyright (C) 2007-2012 OpenWrt.org
#
# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
# See /LICENSE for more information.
#

autoconf_bool = $(patsubst %,$(if $($(1)),--enable,--disable)-%,$(2))

# delete *.la-files from staging_dir - we can not yet remove respective lines within all package
# Makefiles, since backfire still uses libtool v1.5.x which (may) require those files
define libtool_remove_files
	find $(1) -name '*.la' | $(XARGS) rm -f;
endef


AM_TOOL_PATHS:= \
	AUTOM4TE=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/autom4te \
	AUTOCONF=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/autoconf \
	AUTOMAKE=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/automake \
	ACLOCAL=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/aclocal \
	AUTOHEADER=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/autoheader \
	LIBTOOLIZE=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/libtoolize \
	LIBTOOL=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/libtool \
	M4=$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/m4 \
	AUTOPOINT=true

# 1: build dir
# 2: remove files
# 3: automake paths
# 4: libtool paths
# 5: extra m4 dirs
define autoreconf
	(cd $(1); \
		$(patsubst %,rm -f %;,$(2)) \
		$(foreach p,$(3), \
			if [ -f $(p)/configure.ac ] || [ -f $(p)/configure.in ]; then \
				[ -d $(p)/autom4te.cache ] && rm -rf autom4te.cache; \
				[ -e $(p)/config.rpath ] || \
						ln -s $(SCRIPT_DIR)/config.rpath $(p)/config.rpath; \
				touch NEWS AUTHORS COPYING ABOUT-NLS ChangeLog; \
				$(AM_TOOL_PATHS) \
					LIBTOOLIZE='$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/libtoolize --install' \
					$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/autoreconf -v -f -i -s \
					$(if $(word 2,$(3)),--no-recursive) \
					-B $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/share/aclocal \
					$(patsubst %,-I %,$(5)) \
					$(patsubst %,-I %,$(4)) $(p) || true; \
			fi; \
		) \
	);
endef

# 1: build dir
define patch_libtool
	@(cd $(1); \
		for lt in $$$$($$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/find . -name ltmain.sh); do \
			lt_version="$$$$($$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/sed -ne 's,^[[:space:]]*VERSION="\?\([0-9]\.[0-9]\+\).*,\1,p' $$$$lt)"; \
			case "$$$$lt_version" in \
				1.5|2.2|2.4) echo "autotools.mk: Found libtool v$$$$lt_version - applying patch to $$$$lt"; \
					(cd $$$$(dirname $$$$lt) && $$(PATCH) -N -s -p1 < $$(TOPDIR)/tools/libtool/files/libtool-v$$$$lt_version.patch || true) ;; \
				*) echo "autotools.mk: error: Unsupported libtool version v$$$$lt_version - cannot patch $$$$lt"; exit 1 ;; \
			esac; \
		done; \
	);
endef


PKG_LIBTOOL_PATHS?=$(CONFIGURE_PATH)
PKG_AUTOMAKE_PATHS?=$(CONFIGURE_PATH)
PKG_MACRO_PATHS?=m4
PKG_REMOVE_FILES?=aclocal.m4

Hooks/InstallDev/Post += libtool_remove_files

define autoreconf_target
  $(strip $(call autoreconf, \
    $(PKG_BUILD_DIR), $(PKG_REMOVE_FILES), \
    $(PKG_AUTOMAKE_PATHS), $(PKG_LIBTOOL_PATHS), \
    $(STAGING_DIR)/host/share/aclocal $(STAGING_DIR_HOSTPKG)/share/aclocal $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/share/aclocal $(PKG_MACRO_PATHS)))
endef

define patch_libtool_target
  $(strip $(call patch_libtool, \
    $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)))
endef

define gettext_version_target
	(cd $(PKG_BUILD_DIR) && \
		GETTEXT_VERSION=$(shell $(STAGING_DIR_HOSTPKG)/bin/gettext -V | $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/sed -ne '1s/.*\([0-9]\.[0-9]\{2\}\.[0-9]\).*/\1/p' ) && \
		$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/sed \
			-i $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/configure.ac \
			-e "s/AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(.*)/AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(\[$$$$GETTEXT_VERSION\])/g" && \
		$(STAGING_DIR_HOSTPKG)/bin/autopoint --force \
	);
endef

ifneq ($(filter gettext-version,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/Configure/Pre += gettext_version_target
 ifeq ($(filter no-autoreconf,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/Configure/Pre += autoreconf_target
 endif
endif

ifneq ($(filter patch-libtool,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/Configure/Pre += patch_libtool_target
endif

ifneq ($(filter libtool,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS += libtool gettext libiconv
 ifeq ($(filter no-autoreconf,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/Configure/Pre += autoreconf_target
 endif
endif

ifneq ($(filter libtool-ucxx,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS += libtool gettext libiconv
 ifeq ($(filter no-autoreconf,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/Configure/Pre += autoreconf_target
 endif
endif

ifneq ($(filter autoreconf,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  ifeq ($(filter autoreconf,$(Hooks/Configure/Pre)),)
    Hooks/Configure/Pre += autoreconf_target
  endif
endif


HOST_FIXUP?=$(PKG_FIXUP)
HOST_LIBTOOL_PATHS?=$(if $(PKG_LIBTOOL_PATHS),$(PKG_LIBTOOL_PATHS),.)
HOST_AUTOMAKE_PATHS?=$(if $(PKG_AUTOMAKE_PATHS),$(PKG_AUTOMAKE_PATHS),.)
HOST_MACRO_PATHS?=$(if $(PKG_MACRO_PATHS),$(PKG_MACRO_PATHS),m4)
HOST_REMOVE_FILES?=$(PKG_REMOVE_FILES)

define autoreconf_host
  $(strip $(call autoreconf, \
    $(HOST_BUILD_DIR), $(HOST_REMOVE_FILES), \
    $(HOST_AUTOMAKE_PATHS), $(HOST_LIBTOOL_PATHS), \
    $(HOST_MACRO_PATHS)))
endef

define patch_libtool_host
  $(strip $(call patch_libtool, \
    $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)))
endef

ifneq ($(filter patch-libtool,$(PKG_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/HostConfigure/Pre += patch_libtool_host
endif

ifneq ($(filter patch-libtool,$(HOST_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/HostConfigure/Pre += $(strip $(call patch_libtool,$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)))
endif

ifneq ($(filter libtool,$(HOST_FIXUP)),)
 ifeq ($(filter no-autoreconf,$(HOST_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/HostConfigure/Pre += autoreconf_host
 endif
endif

ifneq ($(filter libtool-ucxx,$(HOST_FIXUP)),)
 ifeq ($(filter no-autoreconf,$(HOST_FIXUP)),)
  Hooks/HostConfigure/Pre += autoreconf_host
 endif
endif

ifneq ($(filter autoreconf,$(HOST_FIXUP)),)
  ifeq ($(filter autoreconf,$(Hooks/HostConfigure/Pre)),)
    Hooks/HostConfigure/Pre += autoreconf_host
  endif
endif
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# Advanced googletest Topics


## Introduction

Now that you have read the [googletest Primer](primer.md) and learned how to write
tests using googletest, it's time to learn some new tricks. This document will
show you more assertions as well as how to construct complex failure messages,
propagate fatal failures, reuse and speed up your test fixtures, and use various
flags with your tests.

## More Assertions

This section covers some less frequently used, but still significant,
assertions.

### Explicit Success and Failure

These three assertions do not actually test a value or expression. Instead, they
generate a success or failure directly. Like the macros that actually perform a
test, you may stream a custom failure message into them.

```c++
SUCCEED();
```

Generates a success. This does **NOT** make the overall test succeed. A test is
considered successful only if none of its assertions fail during its execution.

NOTE: `SUCCEED()` is purely documentary and currently doesn't generate any
user-visible output. However, we may add `SUCCEED()` messages to googletest's
output in the future.

```c++
FAIL();
ADD_FAILURE();
ADD_FAILURE_AT("file_path", line_number);
```

`FAIL()` generates a fatal failure, while `ADD_FAILURE()` and `ADD_FAILURE_AT()`
generate a nonfatal failure. These are useful when control flow, rather than a
Boolean expression, determines the test's success or failure. For example, you
might want to write something like:

```c++
switch(expression) {
  case 1:
     ... some checks ...
  case 2:
     ... some other checks ...
  default:
     FAIL() << "We shouldn't get here.";
}
```

NOTE: you can only use `FAIL()` in functions that return `void`. See the
[Assertion Placement section](#assertion-placement) for more information.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

### Exception Assertions

These are for verifying that a piece of code throws (or does not throw) an
exception of the given type:

Fatal assertion                            | Nonfatal assertion                         | Verifies
------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ | --------
`ASSERT_THROW(statement, exception_type);` | `EXPECT_THROW(statement, exception_type);` | `statement` throws an exception of the given type
`ASSERT_ANY_THROW(statement);`             | `EXPECT_ANY_THROW(statement);`             | `statement` throws an exception of any type
`ASSERT_NO_THROW(statement);`              | `EXPECT_NO_THROW(statement);`              | `statement` doesn't throw any exception

Examples:

```c++
ASSERT_THROW(Foo(5), bar_exception);

EXPECT_NO_THROW({
  int n = 5;
  Bar(&n);
});
```

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac; requires exceptions to be enabled in the
build environment (note that `google3` **disables** exceptions).

### Predicate Assertions for Better Error Messages

Even though googletest has a rich set of assertions, they can never be complete,
as it's impossible (nor a good idea) to anticipate all scenarios a user might
run into. Therefore, sometimes a user has to use `EXPECT_TRUE()` to check a
complex expression, for lack of a better macro. This has the problem of not
showing you the values of the parts of the expression, making it hard to
understand what went wrong. As a workaround, some users choose to construct the
failure message by themselves, streaming it into `EXPECT_TRUE()`. However, this
is awkward especially when the expression has side-effects or is expensive to
evaluate.

googletest gives you three different options to solve this problem:

#### Using an Existing Boolean Function

If you already have a function or functor that returns `bool` (or a type that
can be implicitly converted to `bool`), you can use it in a *predicate
assertion* to get the function arguments printed for free:

| Fatal assertion                    | Nonfatal assertion                 | Verifies                    |
| ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| `ASSERT_PRED1(pred1, val1);`       | `EXPECT_PRED1(pred1, val1);`       | `pred1(val1)` is true       |
| `ASSERT_PRED2(pred2, val1, val2);` | `EXPECT_PRED2(pred2, val1, val2);` | `pred2(val1, val2)` is true |
| `...`                              | `...`                              | ...                         |

In the above, `predn` is an `n`-ary predicate function or functor, where `val1`,
`val2`, ..., and `valn` are its arguments. The assertion succeeds if the
predicate returns `true` when applied to the given arguments, and fails
otherwise. When the assertion fails, it prints the value of each argument. In
either case, the arguments are evaluated exactly once.

Here's an example. Given

```c++
// Returns true if m and n have no common divisors except 1.
bool MutuallyPrime(int m, int n) { ... }

const int a = 3;
const int b = 4;
const int c = 10;
```

the assertion

```c++
  EXPECT_PRED2(MutuallyPrime, a, b);
```

will succeed, while the assertion

```c++
  EXPECT_PRED2(MutuallyPrime, b, c);
```

will fail with the message

```none
MutuallyPrime(b, c) is false, where
b is 4
c is 10
```

> NOTE:
>
> 1.  If you see a compiler error "no matching function to call" when using
>     `ASSERT_PRED*` or `EXPECT_PRED*`, please see
>     [this](faq.md#the-compiler-complains-no-matching-function-to-call-when-i-use-assert_pred-how-do-i-fix-it) for how to resolve it.
> 1.  Currently we only provide predicate assertions of arity <= 5. If you need
>     a higher-arity assertion, let [us](https://github.com/google/googletest/issues) know.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

#### Using a Function That Returns an AssertionResult

While `EXPECT_PRED*()` and friends are handy for a quick job, the syntax is not
satisfactory: you have to use different macros for different arities, and it
feels more like Lisp than C++. The `::testing::AssertionResult` class solves
this problem.

An `AssertionResult` object represents the result of an assertion (whether it's
a success or a failure, and an associated message). You can create an
`AssertionResult` using one of these factory functions:

```c++
namespace testing {

// Returns an AssertionResult object to indicate that an assertion has
// succeeded.
AssertionResult AssertionSuccess();

// Returns an AssertionResult object to indicate that an assertion has
// failed.
AssertionResult AssertionFailure();

}
```

You can then use the `<<` operator to stream messages to the `AssertionResult`
object.

To provide more readable messages in Boolean assertions (e.g. `EXPECT_TRUE()`),
write a predicate function that returns `AssertionResult` instead of `bool`. For
example, if you define `IsEven()` as:

```c++
::testing::AssertionResult IsEven(int n) {
  if ((n % 2) == 0)
     return ::testing::AssertionSuccess();
  else
     return ::testing::AssertionFailure() << n << " is odd";
}
```

instead of:

```c++
bool IsEven(int n) {
  return (n % 2) == 0;
}
```

the failed assertion `EXPECT_TRUE(IsEven(Fib(4)))` will print:

```none
Value of: IsEven(Fib(4))
  Actual: false (3 is odd)
Expected: true
```

instead of a more opaque

```none
Value of: IsEven(Fib(4))
  Actual: false
Expected: true
```

If you want informative messages in `EXPECT_FALSE` and `ASSERT_FALSE` as well
(one third of Boolean assertions in the Google code base are negative ones), and
are fine with making the predicate slower in the success case, you can supply a
success message:

```c++
::testing::AssertionResult IsEven(int n) {
  if ((n % 2) == 0)
     return ::testing::AssertionSuccess() << n << " is even";
  else
     return ::testing::AssertionFailure() << n << " is odd";
}
```

Then the statement `EXPECT_FALSE(IsEven(Fib(6)))` will print

```none
  Value of: IsEven(Fib(6))
     Actual: true (8 is even)
  Expected: false
```

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

#### Using a Predicate-Formatter

If you find the default message generated by `(ASSERT|EXPECT)_PRED*` and
`(ASSERT|EXPECT)_(TRUE|FALSE)` unsatisfactory, or some arguments to your
predicate do not support streaming to `ostream`, you can instead use the
following *predicate-formatter assertions* to *fully* customize how the message
is formatted:

Fatal assertion                                  | Nonfatal assertion                               | Verifies
------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | --------
`ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT1(pred_format1, val1);`       | `EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT1(pred_format1, val1);`       | `pred_format1(val1)` is successful
`ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT2(pred_format2, val1, val2);` | `EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(pred_format2, val1, val2);` | `pred_format2(val1, val2)` is successful
`...`                                            | `...`                                            | ...

The difference between this and the previous group of macros is that instead of
a predicate, `(ASSERT|EXPECT)_PRED_FORMAT*` take a *predicate-formatter*
(`pred_formatn`), which is a function or functor with the signature:

```c++
::testing::AssertionResult PredicateFormattern(const char* expr1,
                                               const char* expr2,
                                               ...
                                               const char* exprn,
                                               T1 val1,
                                               T2 val2,
                                               ...
                                               Tn valn);
```

where `val1`, `val2`, ..., and `valn` are the values of the predicate arguments,
and `expr1`, `expr2`, ..., and `exprn` are the corresponding expressions as they
appear in the source code. The types `T1`, `T2`, ..., and `Tn` can be either
value types or reference types. For example, if an argument has type `Foo`, you
can declare it as either `Foo` or `const Foo&`, whichever is appropriate.

As an example, let's improve the failure message in `MutuallyPrime()`, which was
used with `EXPECT_PRED2()`:

```c++
// Returns the smallest prime common divisor of m and n,
// or 1 when m and n are mutually prime.
int SmallestPrimeCommonDivisor(int m, int n) { ... }

// A predicate-formatter for asserting that two integers are mutually prime.
::testing::AssertionResult AssertMutuallyPrime(const char* m_expr,
                                               const char* n_expr,
                                               int m,
                                               int n) {
  if (MutuallyPrime(m, n)) return ::testing::AssertionSuccess();

  return ::testing::AssertionFailure() << m_expr << " and " << n_expr
      << " (" << m << " and " << n << ") are not mutually prime, "
      << "as they have a common divisor " << SmallestPrimeCommonDivisor(m, n);
}
```

With this predicate-formatter, we can use

```c++
  EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(AssertMutuallyPrime, b, c);
```

to generate the message

```none
b and c (4 and 10) are not mutually prime, as they have a common divisor 2.
```

As you may have realized, many of the built-in assertions we introduced earlier
are special cases of `(EXPECT|ASSERT)_PRED_FORMAT*`. In fact, most of them are
indeed defined using `(EXPECT|ASSERT)_PRED_FORMAT*`.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

### Floating-Point Comparison

Comparing floating-point numbers is tricky. Due to round-off errors, it is very
unlikely that two floating-points will match exactly. Therefore, `ASSERT_EQ` 's
naive comparison usually doesn't work. And since floating-points can have a wide
value range, no single fixed error bound works. It's better to compare by a
fixed relative error bound, except for values close to 0 due to the loss of
precision there.

In general, for floating-point comparison to make sense, the user needs to
carefully choose the error bound. If they don't want or care to, comparing in
terms of Units in the Last Place (ULPs) is a good default, and googletest
provides assertions to do this. Full details about ULPs are quite long; if you
want to learn more, see
[here](https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-floating-point-numbers-2012-edition/).

#### Floating-Point Macros

| Fatal assertion                 | Nonfatal assertion             | Verifies                                 |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
| `ASSERT_FLOAT_EQ(val1, val2);`  | `EXPECT_FLOAT_EQ(val1,val2);`  | the two `float` values are almost equal  |
| `ASSERT_DOUBLE_EQ(val1, val2);` | `EXPECT_DOUBLE_EQ(val1, val2);`| the two `double` values are almost equal |

By "almost equal" we mean the values are within 4 ULP's from each other.

NOTE: `CHECK_DOUBLE_EQ()` in `base/logging.h` uses a fixed absolute error bound,
so its result may differ from that of the googletest macros. That macro is
unsafe and has been deprecated. Please don't use it any more.

The following assertions allow you to choose the acceptable error bound:

| Fatal assertion                       | Nonfatal assertion                    | Verifies                  |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| `ASSERT_NEAR(val1, val2, abs_error);` | `EXPECT_NEAR(val1, val2, abs_error);` | the difference between `val1` and `val2` doesn't exceed the given absolute error |

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

#### Floating-Point Predicate-Format Functions

Some floating-point operations are useful, but not that often used. In order to
avoid an explosion of new macros, we provide them as predicate-format functions
that can be used in predicate assertion macros (e.g. `EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2`,
etc).

```c++
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(::testing::FloatLE, val1, val2);
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(::testing::DoubleLE, val1, val2);
```

Verifies that `val1` is less than, or almost equal to, `val2`. You can replace
`EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2` in the above table with `ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT2`.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

### Asserting Using gMock Matchers

Google-developed C++ mocking framework [gMock](../../googlemock) comes with a
library of matchers for validating arguments passed to mock objects. A gMock
*matcher* is basically a predicate that knows how to describe itself. It can be
used in these assertion macros:

| Fatal assertion                | Nonfatal assertion             | Verifies              |
| ------------------------------ | ------------------------------ | --------------------- |
| `ASSERT_THAT(value, matcher);` | `EXPECT_THAT(value, matcher);` | value matches matcher |

For example, `StartsWith(prefix)` is a matcher that matches a string starting
with `prefix`, and you can write:

```c++
using ::testing::StartsWith;
...
    // Verifies that Foo() returns a string starting with "Hello".
    EXPECT_THAT(Foo(), StartsWith("Hello"));
```

Read this [recipe](../../googlemock/docs/CookBook.md#using-matchers-in-google-test-assertions) in
the gMock Cookbook for more details.

gMock has a rich set of matchers. You can do many things googletest cannot do
alone with them. For a list of matchers gMock provides, read
[this](../../googlemock/docs/CookBook.md#using-matchers). Especially useful among them are
some [protocol buffer matchers](https://github.com/google/nucleus/blob/master/nucleus/testing/protocol-buffer-matchers.h). It's easy to write
your [own matchers](../../googlemock/docs/CookBook.md#writing-new-matchers-quickly) too.

For example, you can use gMock's
[EqualsProto](https://github.com/google/nucleus/blob/master/nucleus/testing/protocol-buffer-matchers.h)
to compare protos in your tests:

```c++
#include "testing/base/public/gmock.h"
using ::testing::EqualsProto;
...
    EXPECT_THAT(actual_proto, EqualsProto("foo: 123 bar: 'xyz'"));
    EXPECT_THAT(*actual_proto_ptr, EqualsProto(expected_proto));
```

gMock is bundled with googletest, so you don't need to add any build dependency
in order to take advantage of this. Just include `"testing/base/public/gmock.h"`
and you're ready to go.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, and Mac.

### More String Assertions

(Please read the [previous](#asserting-using-gmock-matchers) section first if you haven't.)

You can use the gMock [string matchers](../../googlemock/docs/CheatSheet.md#string-matchers)
with `EXPECT_THAT()` or `ASSERT_THAT()` to do more string comparison tricks
(sub-string, prefix, suffix, regular expression, and etc). For example,

```c++
using ::testing::HasSubstr;
using ::testing::MatchesRegex;
...
  ASSERT_THAT(foo_string, HasSubstr("needle"));
  EXPECT_THAT(bar_string, MatchesRegex("\\w*\\d+"));
```

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

If the string contains a well-formed HTML or XML document, you can check whether
its DOM tree matches an [XPath
expression](http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#contents):

```c++
// Currently still in //template/prototemplate/testing:xpath_matcher
#include "template/prototemplate/testing/xpath_matcher.h"
using prototemplate::testing::MatchesXPath;
EXPECT_THAT(html_string, MatchesXPath("//a[text()='click here']"));
```

**Availability**: Linux.

### Windows HRESULT assertions

These assertions test for `HRESULT` success or failure.

Fatal assertion                        | Nonfatal assertion                     | Verifies
-------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | --------
`ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(expression)` | `EXPECT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(expression)` | `expression` is a success `HRESULT`
`ASSERT_HRESULT_FAILED(expression)`    | `EXPECT_HRESULT_FAILED(expression)`    | `expression` is a failure `HRESULT`

The generated output contains the human-readable error message associated with
the `HRESULT` code returned by `expression`.

You might use them like this:

```c++
CComPtr<IShellDispatch2> shell;
ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(shell.CoCreateInstance(L"Shell.Application"));
CComVariant empty;
ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(shell->ShellExecute(CComBSTR(url), empty, empty, empty, empty));
```

**Availability**: Windows.

### Type Assertions

You can call the function

```c++
::testing::StaticAssertTypeEq<T1, T2>();
```

to assert that types `T1` and `T2` are the same. The function does nothing if
the assertion is satisfied. If the types are different, the function call will
fail to compile, and the compiler error message will likely (depending on the
compiler) show you the actual values of `T1` and `T2`. This is mainly useful
inside template code.

**Caveat**: When used inside a member function of a class template or a function
template, `StaticAssertTypeEq<T1, T2>()` is effective only if the function is
instantiated. For example, given:

```c++
template <typename T> class Foo {
 public:
  void Bar() { ::testing::StaticAssertTypeEq<int, T>(); }
};
```

the code:

```c++
void Test1() { Foo<bool> foo; }
```

will not generate a compiler error, as `Foo<bool>::Bar()` is never actually
instantiated. Instead, you need:

```c++
void Test2() { Foo<bool> foo; foo.Bar(); }
```

to cause a compiler error.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

### Assertion Placement

You can use assertions in any C++ function. In particular, it doesn't have to be
a method of the test fixture class. The one constraint is that assertions that
generate a fatal failure (`FAIL*` and `ASSERT_*`) can only be used in
void-returning functions. This is a consequence of Google's not using
exceptions. By placing it in a non-void function you'll get a confusing compile
error like `"error: void value not ignored as it ought to be"` or `"cannot
initialize return object of type 'bool' with an rvalue of type 'void'"` or
`"error: no viable conversion from 'void' to 'string'"`.

If you need to use fatal assertions in a function that returns non-void, one
option is to make the function return the value in an out parameter instead. For
example, you can rewrite `T2 Foo(T1 x)` to `void Foo(T1 x, T2* result)`. You
need to make sure that `*result` contains some sensible value even when the
function returns prematurely. As the function now returns `void`, you can use
any assertion inside of it.

If changing the function's type is not an option, you should just use assertions
that generate non-fatal failures, such as `ADD_FAILURE*` and `EXPECT_*`.

NOTE: Constructors and destructors are not considered void-returning functions,
according to the C++ language specification, and so you may not use fatal
assertions in them. You'll get a compilation error if you try. A simple
workaround is to transfer the entire body of the constructor or destructor to a
private void-returning method. However, you should be aware that a fatal
assertion failure in a constructor does not terminate the current test, as your
intuition might suggest; it merely returns from the constructor early, possibly
leaving your object in a partially-constructed state. Likewise, a fatal
assertion failure in a destructor may leave your object in a
partially-destructed state. Use assertions carefully in these situations!

## Teaching googletest How to Print Your Values

When a test assertion such as `EXPECT_EQ` fails, googletest prints the argument
values to help you debug. It does this using a user-extensible value printer.

This printer knows how to print built-in C++ types, native arrays, STL
containers, and any type that supports the `<<` operator. For other types, it
prints the raw bytes in the value and hopes that you the user can figure it out.

As mentioned earlier, the printer is *extensible*. That means you can teach it
to do a better job at printing your particular type than to dump the bytes. To
do that, define `<<` for your type:

```c++
// Streams are allowed only for logging.  Don't include this for
// any other purpose.
#include <ostream>

namespace foo {

class Bar {  // We want googletest to be able to print instances of this.
...
  // Create a free inline friend function.
  friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const Bar& bar) {
    return os << bar.DebugString();  // whatever needed to print bar to os
  }
};

// If you can't declare the function in the class it's important that the
// << operator is defined in the SAME namespace that defines Bar.  C++'s look-up
// rules rely on that.
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const Bar& bar) {
  return os << bar.DebugString();  // whatever needed to print bar to os
}

}  // namespace foo
```

Sometimes, this might not be an option: your team may consider it bad style to
have a `<<` operator for `Bar`, or `Bar` may already have a `<<` operator that
doesn't do what you want (and you cannot change it). If so, you can instead
define a `PrintTo()` function like this:

```c++
// Streams are allowed only for logging.  Don't include this for
// any other purpose.
#include <ostream>

namespace foo {

class Bar {
  ...
  friend void PrintTo(const Bar& bar, std::ostream* os) {
    *os << bar.DebugString();  // whatever needed to print bar to os
  }
};

// If you can't declare the function in the class it's important that PrintTo()
// is defined in the SAME namespace that defines Bar.  C++'s look-up rules rely
// on that.
void PrintTo(const Bar& bar, std::ostream* os) {
  *os << bar.DebugString();  // whatever needed to print bar to os
}

}  // namespace foo
```

If you have defined both `<<` and `PrintTo()`, the latter will be used when
googletest is concerned. This allows you to customize how the value appears in
googletest's output without affecting code that relies on the behavior of its
`<<` operator.

If you want to print a value `x` using googletest's value printer yourself, just
call `::testing::PrintToString(x)`, which returns an `std::string`:

```c++
vector<pair<Bar, int> > bar_ints = GetBarIntVector();

EXPECT_TRUE(IsCorrectBarIntVector(bar_ints))
    << "bar_ints = " << ::testing::PrintToString(bar_ints);
```

## Death Tests

In many applications, there are assertions that can cause application failure if
a condition is not met. These sanity checks, which ensure that the program is in
a known good state, are there to fail at the earliest possible time after some
program state is corrupted. If the assertion checks the wrong condition, then
the program may proceed in an erroneous state, which could lead to memory
corruption, security holes, or worse. Hence it is vitally important to test that
such assertion statements work as expected.

Since these precondition checks cause the processes to die, we call such tests
_death tests_. More generally, any test that checks that a program terminates
(except by throwing an exception) in an expected fashion is also a death test.


Note that if a piece of code throws an exception, we don't consider it "death"
for the purpose of death tests, as the caller of the code could catch the
exception and avoid the crash. If you want to verify exceptions thrown by your
code, see [Exception Assertions](#exception-assertions).

If you want to test `EXPECT_*()/ASSERT_*()` failures in your test code, see
Catching Failures

### How to Write a Death Test

googletest has the following macros to support death tests:

Fatal assertion                                | Nonfatal assertion                             | Verifies
---------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------
`ASSERT_DEATH(statement, regex);`              | `EXPECT_DEATH(statement, regex);`              | `statement` crashes with the given error
`ASSERT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(statement, regex);` | `EXPECT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(statement, regex);` | if death tests are supported, verifies that `statement` crashes with the given error; otherwise verifies nothing
`ASSERT_EXIT(statement, predicate, regex);`    | `EXPECT_EXIT(statement, predicate, regex);`    | `statement` exits with the given error, and its exit code matches `predicate`

where `statement` is a statement that is expected to cause the process to die,
`predicate` is a function or function object that evaluates an integer exit
status, and `regex` is a (Perl) regular expression that the stderr output of
`statement` is expected to match. Note that `statement` can be *any valid
statement* (including *compound statement*) and doesn't have to be an
expression.


As usual, the `ASSERT` variants abort the current test function, while the
`EXPECT` variants do not.

> NOTE: We use the word "crash" here to mean that the process terminates with a
> *non-zero* exit status code. There are two possibilities: either the process
> has called `exit()` or `_exit()` with a non-zero value, or it may be killed by
> a signal.
>
> This means that if `*statement*` terminates the process with a 0 exit code, it
> is *not* considered a crash by `EXPECT_DEATH`. Use `EXPECT_EXIT` instead if
> this is the case, or if you want to restrict the exit code more precisely.

A predicate here must accept an `int` and return a `bool`. The death test
succeeds only if the predicate returns `true`. googletest defines a few
predicates that handle the most common cases:

```c++
::testing::ExitedWithCode(exit_code)
```

This expression is `true` if the program exited normally with the given exit
code.

```c++
::testing::KilledBySignal(signal_number)  // Not available on Windows.
```

This expression is `true` if the program was killed by the given signal.

The `*_DEATH` macros are convenient wrappers for `*_EXIT` that use a predicate
that verifies the process' exit code is non-zero.

Note that a death test only cares about three things:

1.  does `statement` abort or exit the process?
2.  (in the case of `ASSERT_EXIT` and `EXPECT_EXIT`) does the exit status
    satisfy `predicate`? Or (in the case of `ASSERT_DEATH` and `EXPECT_DEATH`)
    is the exit status non-zero? And
3.  does the stderr output match `regex`?

In particular, if `statement` generates an `ASSERT_*` or `EXPECT_*` failure, it
will **not** cause the death test to fail, as googletest assertions don't abort
the process.

To write a death test, simply use one of the above macros inside your test
function. For example,

```c++
TEST(MyDeathTest, Foo) {
  // This death test uses a compound statement.
  ASSERT_DEATH({
    int n = 5;
    Foo(&n);
  }, "Error on line .* of Foo()");
}

TEST(MyDeathTest, NormalExit) {
  EXPECT_EXIT(NormalExit(), ::testing::ExitedWithCode(0), "Success");
}

TEST(MyDeathTest, KillMyself) {
  EXPECT_EXIT(KillMyself(), ::testing::KilledBySignal(SIGKILL),
              "Sending myself unblockable signal");
}
```

verifies that:

*   calling `Foo(5)` causes the process to die with the given error message,
*   calling `NormalExit()` causes the process to print `"Success"` to stderr and
    exit with exit code 0, and
*   calling `KillMyself()` kills the process with signal `SIGKILL`.

The test function body may contain other assertions and statements as well, if
necessary.

### Death Test Naming

IMPORTANT: We strongly recommend you to follow the convention of naming your
**test suite** (not test) `*DeathTest` when it contains a death test, as
demonstrated in the above example. The [Death Tests And
Threads](#death-tests-and-threads) section below explains why.

If a test fixture class is shared by normal tests and death tests, you can use
`using` or `typedef` to introduce an alias for the fixture class and avoid
duplicating its code:

```c++
class FooTest : public ::testing::Test { ... };

using FooDeathTest = FooTest;

TEST_F(FooTest, DoesThis) {
  // normal test
}

TEST_F(FooDeathTest, DoesThat) {
  // death test
}
```

**Availability**: Linux, Windows (requires MSVC 8.0 or above), Cygwin, and Mac

### Regular Expression Syntax


On POSIX systems (e.g. Linux, Cygwin, and Mac), googletest uses the
[POSIX extended regular expression](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_04)
syntax. To learn about this syntax, you may want to read this
[Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#POSIX_Extended_Regular_Expressions).

On Windows, googletest uses its own simple regular expression implementation. It
lacks many features. For example, we don't support union (`"x|y"`), grouping
(`"(xy)"`), brackets (`"[xy]"`), and repetition count (`"x{5,7}"`), among
others. Below is what we do support (`A` denotes a literal character, period
(`.`), or a single `\\ ` escape sequence; `x` and `y` denote regular
expressions.):

Expression | Meaning
---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------
`c`        | matches any literal character `c`
`\\d`      | matches any decimal digit
`\\D`      | matches any character that's not a decimal digit
`\\f`      | matches `\f`
`\\n`      | matches `\n`
`\\r`      | matches `\r`
`\\s`      | matches any ASCII whitespace, including `\n`
`\\S`      | matches any character that's not a whitespace
`\\t`      | matches `\t`
`\\v`      | matches `\v`
`\\w`      | matches any letter, `_`, or decimal digit
`\\W`      | matches any character that `\\w` doesn't match
`\\c`      | matches any literal character `c`, which must be a punctuation
`.`        | matches any single character except `\n`
`A?`       | matches 0 or 1 occurrences of `A`
`A*`       | matches 0 or many occurrences of `A`
`A+`       | matches 1 or many occurrences of `A`
`^`        | matches the beginning of a string (not that of each line)
`$`        | matches the end of a string (not that of each line)
`xy`       | matches `x` followed by `y`

To help you determine which capability is available on your system, googletest
defines macros to govern which regular expression it is using. The macros are:
<!--absl:google3-begin(google3-only)-->`GTEST_USES_PCRE=1`, or
<!--absl:google3-end--> `GTEST_USES_SIMPLE_RE=1` or `GTEST_USES_POSIX_RE=1`. If
you want your death tests to work in all cases, you can either `#if` on these
macros or use the more limited syntax only.

### How It Works

Under the hood, `ASSERT_EXIT()` spawns a new process and executes the death test
statement in that process. The details of how precisely that happens depend on
the platform and the variable ::testing::GTEST_FLAG(death_test_style) (which is
initialized from the command-line flag `--gtest_death_test_style`).

*   On POSIX systems, `fork()` (or `clone()` on Linux) is used to spawn the
    child, after which:
    *   If the variable's value is `"fast"`, the death test statement is
        immediately executed.
    *   If the variable's value is `"threadsafe"`, the child process re-executes
        the unit test binary just as it was originally invoked, but with some
        extra flags to cause just the single death test under consideration to
        be run.
*   On Windows, the child is spawned using the `CreateProcess()` API, and
    re-executes the binary to cause just the single death test under
    consideration to be run - much like the `threadsafe` mode on POSIX.

Other values for the variable are illegal and will cause the death test to fail.
Currently, the flag's default value is
"fast". However, we reserve
the right to change it in the future. Therefore, your tests should not depend on
this. In either case, the parent process waits for the child process to
complete, and checks that

1.  the child's exit status satisfies the predicate, and
2.  the child's stderr matches the regular expression.

If the death test statement runs to completion without dying, the child process
will nonetheless terminate, and the assertion fails.

### Death Tests And Threads

The reason for the two death test styles has to do with thread safety. Due to
well-known problems with forking in the presence of threads, death tests should
be run in a single-threaded context. Sometimes, however, it isn't feasible to
arrange that kind of environment. For example, statically-initialized modules
may start threads before main is ever reached. Once threads have been created,
it may be difficult or impossible to clean them up.

googletest has three features intended to raise awareness of threading issues.

1.  A warning is emitted if multiple threads are running when a death test is
    encountered.
2.  Test suites with a name ending in "DeathTest" are run before all other tests.
3.  It uses `clone()` instead of `fork()` to spawn the child process on Linux
    (`clone()` is not available on Cygwin and Mac), as `fork()` is more likely
    to cause the child to hang when the parent process has multiple threads.

It's perfectly fine to create threads inside a death test statement; they are
executed in a separate process and cannot affect the parent.

### Death Test Styles


The "threadsafe" death test style was introduced in order to help mitigate the
risks of testing in a possibly multithreaded environment. It trades increased
test execution time (potentially dramatically so) for improved thread safety.

The automated testing framework does not set the style flag. You can choose a
particular style of death tests by setting the flag programmatically:

```c++
testing::FLAGS_gtest_death_test_style="threadsafe"
```

You can do this in `main()` to set the style for all death tests in the binary,
or in individual tests. Recall that flags are saved before running each test and
restored afterwards, so you need not do that yourself. For example:

```c++
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  InitGoogle(argv[0], &argc, &argv, true);
  ::testing::FLAGS_gtest_death_test_style = "fast";
  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}

TEST(MyDeathTest, TestOne) {
  ::testing::FLAGS_gtest_death_test_style = "threadsafe";
  // This test is run in the "threadsafe" style:
  ASSERT_DEATH(ThisShouldDie(), "");
}

TEST(MyDeathTest, TestTwo) {
  // This test is run in the "fast" style:
  ASSERT_DEATH(ThisShouldDie(), "");
}
```


### Caveats

The `statement` argument of `ASSERT_EXIT()` can be any valid C++ statement. If
it leaves the current function via a `return` statement or by throwing an
exception, the death test is considered to have failed. Some googletest macros
may return from the current function (e.g. `ASSERT_TRUE()`), so be sure to avoid
them in `statement`.

Since `statement` runs in the child process, any in-memory side effect (e.g.
modifying a variable, releasing memory, etc) it causes will *not* be observable
in the parent process. In particular, if you release memory in a death test,
your program will fail the heap check as the parent process will never see the
memory reclaimed. To solve this problem, you can

1.  try not to free memory in a death test;
2.  free the memory again in the parent process; or
3.  do not use the heap checker in your program.

Due to an implementation detail, you cannot place multiple death test assertions
on the same line; otherwise, compilation will fail with an unobvious error
message.

Despite the improved thread safety afforded by the "threadsafe" style of death
test, thread problems such as deadlock are still possible in the presence of
handlers registered with `pthread_atfork(3)`.


## Using Assertions in Sub-routines

### Adding Traces to Assertions

If a test sub-routine is called from several places, when an assertion inside it
fails, it can be hard to tell which invocation of the sub-routine the failure is
from.
You can alleviate this problem using extra logging or custom failure messages,
but that usually clutters up your tests. A better solution is to use the
`SCOPED_TRACE` macro or the `ScopedTrace` utility:

```c++
SCOPED_TRACE(message);
ScopedTrace trace("file_path", line_number, message);
```

where `message` can be anything streamable to `std::ostream`. `SCOPED_TRACE`
macro will cause the current file name, line number, and the given message to be
added in every failure message. `ScopedTrace` accepts explicit file name and
line number in arguments, which is useful for writing test helpers. The effect
will be undone when the control leaves the current lexical scope.

For example,

```c++
10: void Sub1(int n) {
11:   EXPECT_EQ(1, Bar(n));
12:   EXPECT_EQ(2, Bar(n + 1));
13: }
14:
15: TEST(FooTest, Bar) {
16:   {
17:     SCOPED_TRACE("A");  // This trace point will be included in
18:                         // every failure in this scope.
19:     Sub1(1);
20:   }
21:   // Now it won't.
22:   Sub1(9);
23: }
```

could result in messages like these:

```none
path/to/foo_test.cc:11: Failure
Value of: Bar(n)
Expected: 1
  Actual: 2
   Trace:
path/to/foo_test.cc:17: A

path/to/foo_test.cc:12: Failure
Value of: Bar(n + 1)
Expected: 2
  Actual: 3
```

Without the trace, it would've been difficult to know which invocation of
`Sub1()` the two failures come from respectively. (You could add

an extra message to each assertion in `Sub1()` to indicate the value of `n`, but
that's tedious.)

Some tips on using `SCOPED_TRACE`:

1.  With a suitable message, it's often enough to use `SCOPED_TRACE` at the
    beginning of a sub-routine, instead of at each call site.
2.  When calling sub-routines inside a loop, make the loop iterator part of the
    message in `SCOPED_TRACE` such that you can know which iteration the failure
    is from.
3.  Sometimes the line number of the trace point is enough for identifying the
    particular invocation of a sub-routine. In this case, you don't have to
    choose a unique message for `SCOPED_TRACE`. You can simply use `""`.
4.  You can use `SCOPED_TRACE` in an inner scope when there is one in the outer
    scope. In this case, all active trace points will be included in the failure
    messages, in reverse order they are encountered.
5.  The trace dump is clickable in Emacs - hit `return` on a line number and
    you'll be taken to that line in the source file!

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

### Propagating Fatal Failures

A common pitfall when using `ASSERT_*` and `FAIL*` is not understanding that
when they fail they only abort the _current function_, not the entire test. For
example, the following test will segfault:

```c++
void Subroutine() {
  // Generates a fatal failure and aborts the current function.
  ASSERT_EQ(1, 2);

  // The following won't be executed.
  ...
}

TEST(FooTest, Bar) {
  Subroutine();  // The intended behavior is for the fatal failure
                 // in Subroutine() to abort the entire test.

  // The actual behavior: the function goes on after Subroutine() returns.
  int* p = NULL;
  *p = 3;  // Segfault!
}
```

To alleviate this, googletest provides three different solutions. You could use
either exceptions, the `(ASSERT|EXPECT)_NO_FATAL_FAILURE` assertions or the
`HasFatalFailure()` function. They are described in the following two
subsections.

#### Asserting on Subroutines with an exception

The following code can turn ASSERT-failure into an exception:

```c++
class ThrowListener : public testing::EmptyTestEventListener {
  void OnTestPartResult(const testing::TestPartResult& result) override {
    if (result.type() == testing::TestPartResult::kFatalFailure) {
      throw testing::AssertionException(result);
    }
  }
};
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  ...
  testing::UnitTest::GetInstance()->listeners().Append(new ThrowListener);
  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}
```

This listener should be added after other listeners if you have any, otherwise
they won't see failed `OnTestPartResult`.

#### Asserting on Subroutines

As shown above, if your test calls a subroutine that has an `ASSERT_*` failure
in it, the test will continue after the subroutine returns. This may not be what
you want.

Often people want fatal failures to propagate like exceptions. For that
googletest offers the following macros:

Fatal assertion                       | Nonfatal assertion                    | Verifies
------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | --------
`ASSERT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE(statement);` | `EXPECT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE(statement);` | `statement` doesn't generate any new fatal failures in the current thread.

Only failures in the thread that executes the assertion are checked to determine
the result of this type of assertions. If `statement` creates new threads,
failures in these threads are ignored.

Examples:

```c++
ASSERT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE(Foo());

int i;
EXPECT_NO_FATAL_FAILURE({
  i = Bar();
});
```

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac. Assertions from multiple threads are
currently not supported on Windows.

#### Checking for Failures in the Current Test

`HasFatalFailure()` in the `::testing::Test` class returns `true` if an
assertion in the current test has suffered a fatal failure. This allows
functions to catch fatal failures in a sub-routine and return early.

```c++
class Test {
 public:
  ...
  static bool HasFatalFailure();
};
```

The typical usage, which basically simulates the behavior of a thrown exception,
is:

```c++
TEST(FooTest, Bar) {
  Subroutine();
  // Aborts if Subroutine() had a fatal failure.
  if (HasFatalFailure()) return;

  // The following won't be executed.
  ...
}
```

If `HasFatalFailure()` is used outside of `TEST()` , `TEST_F()` , or a test
fixture, you must add the `::testing::Test::` prefix, as in:

```c++
if (::testing::Test::HasFatalFailure()) return;
```

Similarly, `HasNonfatalFailure()` returns `true` if the current test has at
least one non-fatal failure, and `HasFailure()` returns `true` if the current
test has at least one failure of either kind.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

## Logging Additional Information

In your test code, you can call `RecordProperty("key", value)` to log additional
information, where `value` can be either a string or an `int`. The *last* value
recorded for a key will be emitted to the [XML output](#generating-an-xml-report) if you
specify one. For example, the test

```c++
TEST_F(WidgetUsageTest, MinAndMaxWidgets) {
  RecordProperty("MaximumWidgets", ComputeMaxUsage());
  RecordProperty("MinimumWidgets", ComputeMinUsage());
}
```

will output XML like this:

```xml
  ...
    <testcase name="MinAndMaxWidgets" status="run" time="0.006" classname="WidgetUsageTest" MaximumWidgets="12" MinimumWidgets="9" />
  ...
```

> NOTE:
>
> *   `RecordProperty()` is a static member of the `Test` class. Therefore it
>     needs to be prefixed with `::testing::Test::` if used outside of the
>     `TEST` body and the test fixture class.
> *   `*key*` must be a valid XML attribute name, and cannot conflict with the
>     ones already used by googletest (`name`, `status`, `time`, `classname`,
>     `type_param`, and `value_param`).
> *   Calling `RecordProperty()` outside of the lifespan of a test is allowed.
>     If it's called outside of a test but between a test suite's
>     `SetUpTestSuite()` and `TearDownTestSuite()` methods, it will be attributed
>     to the XML element for the test suite. If it's called outside of all test
>     suites (e.g. in a test environment), it will be attributed to the top-level
>     XML element.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

## Sharing Resources Between Tests in the Same Test Suite

googletest creates a new test fixture object for each test in order to make
tests independent and easier to debug. However, sometimes tests use resources
that are expensive to set up, making the one-copy-per-test model prohibitively
expensive.

If the tests don't change the resource, there's no harm in their sharing a
single resource copy. So, in addition to per-test set-up/tear-down, googletest
also supports per-test-suite set-up/tear-down. To use it:

1.  In your test fixture class (say `FooTest` ), declare as `static` some member
    variables to hold the shared resources.
1.  Outside your test fixture class (typically just below it), define those
    member variables, optionally giving them initial values.
1.  In the same test fixture class, define a `static void SetUpTestSuite()`
    function (remember not to spell it as **`SetupTestSuite`** with a small `u`!)
    to set up the shared resources and a `static void TearDownTestSuite()`
    function to tear them down.

That's it! googletest automatically calls `SetUpTestSuite()` before running the
*first test* in the `FooTest` test suite (i.e. before creating the first
`FooTest` object), and calls `TearDownTestSuite()` after running the *last test*
in it (i.e. after deleting the last `FooTest` object). In between, the tests can
use the shared resources.

Remember that the test order is undefined, so your code can't depend on a test
preceding or following another. Also, the tests must either not modify the state
of any shared resource, or, if they do modify the state, they must restore the
state to its original value before passing control to the next test.

Here's an example of per-test-suite set-up and tear-down:

```c++
class FooTest : public ::testing::Test {
 protected:
  // Per-test-suite set-up.
  // Called before the first test in this test suite.
  // Can be omitted if not needed.
  static void SetUpTestSuite() {
    shared_resource_ = new ...;
  }

  // Per-test-suite tear-down.
  // Called after the last test in this test suite.
  // Can be omitted if not needed.
  static void TearDownTestSuite() {
    delete shared_resource_;
    shared_resource_ = NULL;
  }

  // You can define per-test set-up logic as usual.
  virtual void SetUp() { ... }

  // You can define per-test tear-down logic as usual.
  virtual void TearDown() { ... }

  // Some expensive resource shared by all tests.
  static T* shared_resource_;
};

T* FooTest::shared_resource_ = NULL;

TEST_F(FooTest, Test1) {
  ... you can refer to shared_resource_ here ...
}

TEST_F(FooTest, Test2) {
  ... you can refer to shared_resource_ here ...
}
```

NOTE: Though the above code declares `SetUpTestSuite()` protected, it may
sometimes be necessary to declare it public, such as when using it with
`TEST_P`.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

## Global Set-Up and Tear-Down

Just as you can do set-up and tear-down at the test level and the test suite
level, you can also do it at the test program level. Here's how.

First, you subclass the `::testing::Environment` class to define a test
environment, which knows how to set-up and tear-down:

```c++
class Environment {
 public:
  virtual ~Environment() {}

  // Override this to define how to set up the environment.
  virtual void SetUp() {}

  // Override this to define how to tear down the environment.
  virtual void TearDown() {}
};
```

Then, you register an instance of your environment class with googletest by
calling the `::testing::AddGlobalTestEnvironment()` function:

```c++
Environment* AddGlobalTestEnvironment(Environment* env);
```

Now, when `RUN_ALL_TESTS()` is called, it first calls the `SetUp()` method of
the environment object, then runs the tests if there was no fatal failures, and
finally calls `TearDown()` of the environment object.

It's OK to register multiple environment objects. In this case, their `SetUp()`
will be called in the order they are registered, and their `TearDown()` will be
called in the reverse order.

Note that googletest takes ownership of the registered environment objects.
Therefore **do not delete them** by yourself.

You should call `AddGlobalTestEnvironment()` before `RUN_ALL_TESTS()` is called,
probably in `main()`. If you use `gtest_main`, you need to call this before
`main()` starts for it to take effect. One way to do this is to define a global
variable like this:

```c++
::testing::Environment* const foo_env =
    ::testing::AddGlobalTestEnvironment(new FooEnvironment);
```

However, we strongly recommend you to write your own `main()` and call
`AddGlobalTestEnvironment()` there, as relying on initialization of global
variables makes the code harder to read and may cause problems when you register
multiple environments from different translation units and the environments have
dependencies among them (remember that the compiler doesn't guarantee the order
in which global variables from different translation units are initialized).

## Value-Parameterized Tests

*Value-parameterized tests* allow you to test your code with different
parameters without writing multiple copies of the same test. This is useful in a
number of situations, for example:

*   You have a piece of code whose behavior is affected by one or more
    command-line flags. You want to make sure your code performs correctly for
    various values of those flags.
*   You want to test different implementations of an OO interface.
*   You want to test your code over various inputs (a.k.a. data-driven testing).
    This feature is easy to abuse, so please exercise your good sense when doing
    it!

### How to Write Value-Parameterized Tests

To write value-parameterized tests, first you should define a fixture class. It
must be derived from both `::testing::Test` and
`::testing::WithParamInterface<T>` (the latter is a pure interface), where `T`
is the type of your parameter values. For convenience, you can just derive the
fixture class from `::testing::TestWithParam<T>`, which itself is derived from
both `::testing::Test` and `::testing::WithParamInterface<T>`. `T` can be any
copyable type. If it's a raw pointer, you are responsible for managing the
lifespan of the pointed values.

NOTE: If your test fixture defines `SetUpTestSuite()` or `TearDownTestSuite()`
they must be declared **public** rather than **protected** in order to use
`TEST_P`.

```c++
class FooTest :
    public ::testing::TestWithParam<const char*> {
  // You can implement all the usual fixture class members here.
  // To access the test parameter, call GetParam() from class
  // TestWithParam<T>.
};

// Or, when you want to add parameters to a pre-existing fixture class:
class BaseTest : public ::testing::Test {
  ...
};
class BarTest : public BaseTest,
                public ::testing::WithParamInterface<const char*> {
  ...
};
```

Then, use the `TEST_P` macro to define as many test patterns using this fixture
as you want. The `_P` suffix is for "parameterized" or "pattern", whichever you
prefer to think.

```c++
TEST_P(FooTest, DoesBlah) {
  // Inside a test, access the test parameter with the GetParam() method
  // of the TestWithParam<T> class:
  EXPECT_TRUE(foo.Blah(GetParam()));
  ...
}

TEST_P(FooTest, HasBlahBlah) {
  ...
}
```

Finally, you can use `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` to instantiate the test suite with
any set of parameters you want. googletest defines a number of functions for
generating test parameters. They return what we call (surprise!) *parameter
generators*. Here is a summary of them, which are all in the `testing`
namespace:

| Parameter Generator          | Behavior                                    |
| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| `Range(begin, end [, step])` | Yields values `{begin, begin+step, begin+step+step, ...}`. The values do not include `end`. `step` defaults to 1.      |
| `Values(v1, v2, ..., vN)`    | Yields values `{v1, v2, ..., vN}`.          |
| `ValuesIn(container)` and `ValuesIn(begin,end)`   | Yields values from a C-style array, an STL-style container, or an iterator range  `[begin, end)`. |
| `Bool()`                     | Yields sequence `{false, true}`.            |
| `Combine(g1, g2, ..., gN)`   | Yields all combinations (Cartesian product) as std\:\:tuples of the values generated by the `N` generators.            |

For more details, see the comments at the definitions of these functions.

The following statement will instantiate tests from the `FooTest` test suite each
with parameter values `"meeny"`, `"miny"`, and `"moe"`.

```c++
INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(InstantiationName,
                        FooTest,
                        ::testing::Values("meeny", "miny", "moe"));
```

NOTE: The code above must be placed at global or namespace scope, not at
function scope.

NOTE: Don't forget this step! If you do your test will silently pass, but none
of its suites will ever run!

To distinguish different instances of the pattern (yes, you can instantiate it
more than once), the first argument to `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` is a prefix
that will be added to the actual test suite name. Remember to pick unique
prefixes for different instantiations. The tests from the instantiation above
will have these names:

*   `InstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/0` for `"meeny"`
*   `InstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/1` for `"miny"`
*   `InstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/2` for `"moe"`
*   `InstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/0` for `"meeny"`
*   `InstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/1` for `"miny"`
*   `InstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/2` for `"moe"`

You can use these names in [`--gtest_filter`](#running-a-subset-of-the-tests).

This statement will instantiate all tests from `FooTest` again, each with
parameter values `"cat"` and `"dog"`:

```c++
const char* pets[] = {"cat", "dog"};
INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(AnotherInstantiationName, FooTest,
                        ::testing::ValuesIn(pets));
```

The tests from the instantiation above will have these names:

*   `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/0` for `"cat"`
*   `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.DoesBlah/1` for `"dog"`
*   `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/0` for `"cat"`
*   `AnotherInstantiationName/FooTest.HasBlahBlah/1` for `"dog"`

Please note that `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` will instantiate *all* tests in the
given test suite, whether their definitions come before or *after* the
`INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P` statement.

You can see sample7_unittest.cc and sample8_unittest.cc for more examples.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows (requires MSVC 8.0 or above), Mac

### Creating Value-Parameterized Abstract Tests

In the above, we define and instantiate `FooTest` in the *same* source file.
Sometimes you may want to define value-parameterized tests in a library and let
other people instantiate them later. This pattern is known as *abstract tests*.
As an example of its application, when you are designing an interface you can
write a standard suite of abstract tests (perhaps using a factory function as
the test parameter) that all implementations of the interface are expected to
pass. When someone implements the interface, they can instantiate your suite to
get all the interface-conformance tests for free.

To define abstract tests, you should organize your code like this:

1.  Put the definition of the parameterized test fixture class (e.g. `FooTest`)
    in a header file, say `foo_param_test.h`. Think of this as *declaring* your
    abstract tests.
1.  Put the `TEST_P` definitions in `foo_param_test.cc`, which includes
    `foo_param_test.h`. Think of this as *implementing* your abstract tests.

Once they are defined, you can instantiate them by including `foo_param_test.h`,
invoking `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P()`, and depending on the library target that
contains `foo_param_test.cc`. You can instantiate the same abstract test suite
multiple times, possibly in different source files.

### Specifying Names for Value-Parameterized Test Parameters

The optional last argument to `INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P()` allows the user to
specify a function or functor that generates custom test name suffixes based on
the test parameters. The function should accept one argument of type
`testing::TestParamInfo<class ParamType>`, and return `std::string`.

`testing::PrintToStringParamName` is a builtin test suffix generator that
returns the value of `testing::PrintToString(GetParam())`. It does not work for
`std::string` or C strings.

NOTE: test names must be non-empty, unique, and may only contain ASCII
alphanumeric characters. In particular, they [should not contain
underscores](https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googletest/docs/faq.md#why-should-test-suite-names-and-test-names-not-contain-underscore).

```c++
class MyTestsuite : public testing::TestWithParam<int> {};

TEST_P(MyTestsuite, MyTest)
{
  std::cout << "Example Test Param: " << GetParam() << std::endl;
}

INSTANTIATE_TEST_SUITE_P(MyGroup, MyTestsuite, testing::Range(0, 10),
                        testing::PrintToStringParamName());
```

## Typed Tests</id>

Suppose you have multiple implementations of the same interface and want to make
sure that all of them satisfy some common requirements. Or, you may have defined
several types that are supposed to conform to the same "concept" and you want to
verify it. In both cases, you want the same test logic repeated for different
types.

While you can write one `TEST` or `TEST_F` for each type you want to test (and
you may even factor the test logic into a function template that you invoke from
the `TEST`), it's tedious and doesn't scale: if you want `m` tests over `n`
types, you'll end up writing `m*n` `TEST`s.

*Typed tests* allow you to repeat the same test logic over a list of types. You
only need to write the test logic once, although you must know the type list
when writing typed tests. Here's how you do it:

First, define a fixture class template. It should be parameterized by a type.
Remember to derive it from `::testing::Test`:

```c++
template <typename T>
class FooTest : public ::testing::Test {
 public:
  ...
  typedef std::list<T> List;
  static T shared_;
  T value_;
};
```

Next, associate a list of types with the test suite, which will be repeated for
each type in the list:

```c++
using MyTypes = ::testing::Types<char, int, unsigned int>;
TYPED_TEST_SUITE(FooTest, MyTypes);
```

The type alias (`using` or `typedef`) is necessary for the `TYPED_TEST_SUITE`
macro to parse correctly. Otherwise the compiler will think that each comma in
the type list introduces a new macro argument.

Then, use `TYPED_TEST()` instead of `TEST_F()` to define a typed test for this
test suite. You can repeat this as many times as you want:

```c++
TYPED_TEST(FooTest, DoesBlah) {
  // Inside a test, refer to the special name TypeParam to get the type
  // parameter.  Since we are inside a derived class template, C++ requires
  // us to visit the members of FooTest via 'this'.
  TypeParam n = this->value_;

  // To visit static members of the fixture, add the 'TestFixture::'
  // prefix.
  n += TestFixture::shared_;

  // To refer to typedefs in the fixture, add the 'typename TestFixture::'
  // prefix.  The 'typename' is required to satisfy the compiler.
  typename TestFixture::List values;

  values.push_back(n);
  ...
}

TYPED_TEST(FooTest, HasPropertyA) { ... }
```

You can see sample6_unittest.cc

**Availability**: Linux, Windows (requires MSVC 8.0 or above), Mac

## Type-Parameterized Tests

*Type-parameterized tests* are like typed tests, except that they don't require
you to know the list of types ahead of time. Instead, you can define the test
logic first and instantiate it with different type lists later. You can even
instantiate it more than once in the same program.

If you are designing an interface or concept, you can define a suite of
type-parameterized tests to verify properties that any valid implementation of
the interface/concept should have. Then, the author of each implementation can
just instantiate the test suite with their type to verify that it conforms to
the requirements, without having to write similar tests repeatedly. Here's an
example:

First, define a fixture class template, as we did with typed tests:

```c++
template <typename T>
class FooTest : public ::testing::Test {
  ...
};
```

Next, declare that you will define a type-parameterized test suite:

```c++
TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(FooTest);
```

Then, use `TYPED_TEST_P()` to define a type-parameterized test. You can repeat
this as many times as you want:

```c++
TYPED_TEST_P(FooTest, DoesBlah) {
  // Inside a test, refer to TypeParam to get the type parameter.
  TypeParam n = 0;
  ...
}

TYPED_TEST_P(FooTest, HasPropertyA) { ... }
```

Now the tricky part: you need to register all test patterns using the
`REGISTER_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P` macro before you can instantiate them. The first
argument of the macro is the test suite name; the rest are the names of the tests
in this test suite:

```c++
REGISTER_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(FooTest,
                           DoesBlah, HasPropertyA);
```

Finally, you are free to instantiate the pattern with the types you want. If you
put the above code in a header file, you can `#include` it in multiple C++
source files and instantiate it multiple times.

```c++
typedef ::testing::Types<char, int, unsigned int> MyTypes;
INSTANTIATE_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(My, FooTest, MyTypes);
```

To distinguish different instances of the pattern, the first argument to the
`INSTANTIATE_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P` macro is a prefix that will be added to the
actual test suite name. Remember to pick unique prefixes for different instances.

In the special case where the type list contains only one type, you can write
that type directly without `::testing::Types<...>`, like this:

```c++
INSTANTIATE_TYPED_TEST_SUITE_P(My, FooTest, int);
```

You can see `sample6_unittest.cc` for a complete example.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows (requires MSVC 8.0 or above), Mac

## Testing Private Code

If you change your software's internal implementation, your tests should not
break as long as the change is not observable by users. Therefore, **per the
black-box testing principle, most of the time you should test your code through
its public interfaces.**

**If you still find yourself needing to test internal implementation code,
consider if there's a better design.** The desire to test internal
implementation is often a sign that the class is doing too much. Consider
extracting an implementation class, and testing it. Then use that implementation
class in the original class.

If you absolutely have to test non-public interface code though, you can. There
are two cases to consider:

*   Static functions ( *not* the same as static member functions!) or unnamed
    namespaces, and
*   Private or protected class members

To test them, we use the following special techniques:

*   Both static functions and definitions/declarations in an unnamed namespace
    are only visible within the same translation unit. To test them, you can
    `#include` the entire `.cc` file being tested in your `*_test.cc` file.
    (including `.cc` files is not a good way to reuse code - you should not do
    this in production code!)

    However, a better approach is to move the private code into the
    `foo::internal` namespace, where `foo` is the namespace your project
    normally uses, and put the private declarations in a `*-internal.h` file.
    Your production `.cc` files and your tests are allowed to include this
    internal header, but your clients are not. This way, you can fully test your
    internal implementation without leaking it to your clients.

*   Private class members are only accessible from within the class or by
    friends. To access a class' private members, you can declare your test
    fixture as a friend to the class and define accessors in your fixture. Tests
    using the fixture can then access the private members of your production
    class via the accessors in the fixture. Note that even though your fixture
    is a friend to your production class, your tests are not automatically
    friends to it, as they are technically defined in sub-classes of the
    fixture.

    Another way to test private members is to refactor them into an
    implementation class, which is then declared in a `*-internal.h` file. Your
    clients aren't allowed to include this header but your tests can. Such is
    called the
    [Pimpl](https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/the-c-pimpl-r1794/)
    (Private Implementation) idiom.

    Or, you can declare an individual test as a friend of your class by adding
    this line in the class body:

    ```c++
        FRIEND_TEST(TestsuiteName, TestName);
    ```

    For example,

    ```c++
    // foo.h

    #include "gtest/gtest_prod.h"

    class Foo {
      ...
    private:
      FRIEND_TEST(FooTest, BarReturnsZeroOnNull);

      int Bar(void* x);
    };

    // foo_test.cc
    ...
    TEST(FooTest, BarReturnsZeroOnNull) {
      Foo foo;
      EXPECT_EQ(0, foo.Bar(NULL));  // Uses Foo's private member Bar().
    }
    ```

    Pay special attention when your class is defined in a namespace, as you
    should define your test fixtures and tests in the same namespace if you want
    them to be friends of your class. For example, if the code to be tested
    looks like:

    ```c++
    namespace my_namespace {

    class Foo {
      friend class FooTest;
      FRIEND_TEST(FooTest, Bar);
      FRIEND_TEST(FooTest, Baz);
      ... definition of the class Foo ...
    };

    }  // namespace my_namespace
    ```

    Your test code should be something like:

    ```c++
    namespace my_namespace {

    class FooTest : public ::testing::Test {
     protected:
      ...
    };

    TEST_F(FooTest, Bar) { ... }
    TEST_F(FooTest, Baz) { ... }

    }  // namespace my_namespace
    ```


## "Catching" Failures

If you are building a testing utility on top of googletest, you'll want to test
your utility. What framework would you use to test it? googletest, of course.

The challenge is to verify that your testing utility reports failures correctly.
In frameworks that report a failure by throwing an exception, you could catch
the exception and assert on it. But googletest doesn't use exceptions, so how do
we test that a piece of code generates an expected failure?

gunit-spi.h contains some constructs to do this. After #including this header,
you can use

```c++
  EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE(statement, substring);
```

to assert that `statement` generates a fatal (e.g. `ASSERT_*`) failure in the
current thread whose message contains the given `substring`, or use

```c++
  EXPECT_NONFATAL_FAILURE(statement, substring);
```

if you are expecting a non-fatal (e.g. `EXPECT_*`) failure.

Only failures in the current thread are checked to determine the result of this
type of expectations. If `statement` creates new threads, failures in these
threads are also ignored. If you want to catch failures in other threads as
well, use one of the following macros instead:

```c++
  EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE_ON_ALL_THREADS(statement, substring);
  EXPECT_NONFATAL_FAILURE_ON_ALL_THREADS(statement, substring);
```

NOTE: Assertions from multiple threads are currently not supported on Windows.

For technical reasons, there are some caveats:

1.  You cannot stream a failure message to either macro.

1.  `statement` in `EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE{_ON_ALL_THREADS}()` cannot reference
    local non-static variables or non-static members of `this` object.

1.  `statement` in `EXPECT_FATAL_FAILURE{_ON_ALL_THREADS}()()` cannot return a
    value.


## Getting the Current Test's Name

Sometimes a function may need to know the name of the currently running test.
For example, you may be using the `SetUp()` method of your test fixture to set
the golden file name based on which test is running. The `::testing::TestInfo`
class has this information:

```c++
namespace testing {

class TestInfo {
 public:
  // Returns the test suite name and the test name, respectively.
  //
  // Do NOT delete or free the return value - it's managed by the
  // TestInfo class.
  const char* test_suite_name() const;
  const char* name() const;
};

}
```

To obtain a `TestInfo` object for the currently running test, call
`current_test_info()` on the `UnitTest` singleton object:

```c++
  // Gets information about the currently running test.
  // Do NOT delete the returned object - it's managed by the UnitTest class.
  const ::testing::TestInfo* const test_info =
    ::testing::UnitTest::GetInstance()->current_test_info();



  printf("We are in test %s of test suite %s.\n",
         test_info->name(),
         test_info->test_suite_name());
```

`current_test_info()` returns a null pointer if no test is running. In
particular, you cannot find the test suite name in `TestsuiteSetUp()`,
`TestsuiteTearDown()` (where you know the test suite name implicitly), or
functions called from them.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

## Extending googletest by Handling Test Events

googletest provides an **event listener API** to let you receive notifications
about the progress of a test program and test failures. The events you can
listen to include the start and end of the test program, a test suite, or a test
method, among others. You may use this API to augment or replace the standard
console output, replace the XML output, or provide a completely different form
of output, such as a GUI or a database. You can also use test events as
checkpoints to implement a resource leak checker, for example.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

### Defining Event Listeners

To define a event listener, you subclass either testing::TestEventListener or
testing::EmptyTestEventListener The former is an (abstract) interface, where
*each pure virtual method can be overridden to handle a test event* (For
example, when a test starts, the `OnTestStart()` method will be called.). The
latter provides an empty implementation of all methods in the interface, such
that a subclass only needs to override the methods it cares about.

When an event is fired, its context is passed to the handler function as an
argument. The following argument types are used:

*   UnitTest reflects the state of the entire test program,
*   Testsuite has information about a test suite, which can contain one or more
    tests,
*   TestInfo contains the state of a test, and
*   TestPartResult represents the result of a test assertion.

An event handler function can examine the argument it receives to find out
interesting information about the event and the test program's state.

Here's an example:

```c++
  class MinimalistPrinter : public ::testing::EmptyTestEventListener {
    // Called before a test starts.
    virtual void OnTestStart(const ::testing::TestInfo& test_info) {
      printf("*** Test %s.%s starting.\n",
             test_info.test_suite_name(), test_info.name());
    }

    // Called after a failed assertion or a SUCCESS().
    virtual void OnTestPartResult(const ::testing::TestPartResult& test_part_result) {
      printf("%s in %s:%d\n%s\n",
             test_part_result.failed() ? "*** Failure" : "Success",
             test_part_result.file_name(),
             test_part_result.line_number(),
             test_part_result.summary());
    }

    // Called after a test ends.
    virtual void OnTestEnd(const ::testing::TestInfo& test_info) {
      printf("*** Test %s.%s ending.\n",
             test_info.test_suite_name(), test_info.name());
    }
  };
```

### Using Event Listeners

To use the event listener you have defined, add an instance of it to the
googletest event listener list (represented by class TestEventListeners - note
the "s" at the end of the name) in your `main()` function, before calling
`RUN_ALL_TESTS()`:

```c++
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
  // Gets hold of the event listener list.
  ::testing::TestEventListeners& listeners =
        ::testing::UnitTest::GetInstance()->listeners();
  // Adds a listener to the end.  googletest takes the ownership.
  listeners.Append(new MinimalistPrinter);
  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}
```

There's only one problem: the default test result printer is still in effect, so
its output will mingle with the output from your minimalist printer. To suppress
the default printer, just release it from the event listener list and delete it.
You can do so by adding one line:

```c++
  ...
  delete listeners.Release(listeners.default_result_printer());
  listeners.Append(new MinimalistPrinter);
  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
```

Now, sit back and enjoy a completely different output from your tests. For more
details, you can read this sample9_unittest.cc

You may append more than one listener to the list. When an `On*Start()` or
`OnTestPartResult()` event is fired, the listeners will receive it in the order
they appear in the list (since new listeners are added to the end of the list,
the default text printer and the default XML generator will receive the event
first). An `On*End()` event will be received by the listeners in the *reverse*
order. This allows output by listeners added later to be framed by output from
listeners added earlier.

### Generating Failures in Listeners

You may use failure-raising macros (`EXPECT_*()`, `ASSERT_*()`, `FAIL()`, etc)
when processing an event. There are some restrictions:

1.  You cannot generate any failure in `OnTestPartResult()` (otherwise it will
    cause `OnTestPartResult()` to be called recursively).
1.  A listener that handles `OnTestPartResult()` is not allowed to generate any
    failure.

When you add listeners to the listener list, you should put listeners that
handle `OnTestPartResult()` *before* listeners that can generate failures. This
ensures that failures generated by the latter are attributed to the right test
by the former.

We have a sample of failure-raising listener sample10_unittest.cc

## Running Test Programs: Advanced Options

googletest test programs are ordinary executables. Once built, you can run them
directly and affect their behavior via the following environment variables
and/or command line flags. For the flags to work, your programs must call
`::testing::InitGoogleTest()` before calling `RUN_ALL_TESTS()`.

To see a list of supported flags and their usage, please run your test program
with the `--help` flag. You can also use `-h`, `-?`, or `/?` for short.

If an option is specified both by an environment variable and by a flag, the
latter takes precedence.

### Selecting Tests

#### Listing Test Names

Sometimes it is necessary to list the available tests in a program before
running them so that a filter may be applied if needed. Including the flag
`--gtest_list_tests` overrides all other flags and lists tests in the following
format:

```none
Testsuite1.
  TestName1
  TestName2
Testsuite2.
  TestName
```

None of the tests listed are actually run if the flag is provided. There is no
corresponding environment variable for this flag.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

#### Running a Subset of the Tests

By default, a googletest program runs all tests the user has defined. Sometimes,
you want to run only a subset of the tests (e.g. for debugging or quickly
verifying a change). If you set the `GTEST_FILTER` environment variable or the
`--gtest_filter` flag to a filter string, googletest will only run the tests
whose full names (in the form of `TestsuiteName.TestName`) match the filter.

The format of a filter is a '`:`'-separated list of wildcard patterns (called
the *positive patterns*) optionally followed by a '`-`' and another
'`:`'-separated pattern list (called the *negative patterns*). A test matches
the filter if and only if it matches any of the positive patterns but does not
match any of the negative patterns.

A pattern may contain `'*'` (matches any string) or `'?'` (matches any single
character). For convenience, the filter

`'*-NegativePatterns'` can be also written as `'-NegativePatterns'`.

For example:

*   `./foo_test` Has no flag, and thus runs all its tests.
*   `./foo_test --gtest_filter=*` Also runs everything, due to the single
    match-everything `*` value.
*   `./foo_test --gtest_filter=FooTest.*` Runs everything in test suite `FooTest`
    .
*   `./foo_test --gtest_filter=*Null*:*Constructor*` Runs any test whose full
    name contains either `"Null"` or `"Constructor"` .
*   `./foo_test --gtest_filter=-*DeathTest.*` Runs all non-death tests.
*   `./foo_test --gtest_filter=FooTest.*-FooTest.Bar` Runs everything in test
    suite `FooTest` except `FooTest.Bar`.
*   `./foo_test --gtest_filter=FooTest.*:BarTest.*-FooTest.Bar:BarTest.Foo` Runs
    everything in test suite `FooTest` except `FooTest.Bar` and everything in
    test suite `BarTest` except `BarTest.Foo`.

#### Temporarily Disabling Tests

If you have a broken test that you cannot fix right away, you can add the
`DISABLED_` prefix to its name. This will exclude it from execution. This is
better than commenting out the code or using `#if 0`, as disabled tests are
still compiled (and thus won't rot).

If you need to disable all tests in a test suite, you can either add `DISABLED_`
to the front of the name of each test, or alternatively add it to the front of
the test suite name.

For example, the following tests won't be run by googletest, even though they
will still be compiled:

```c++
// Tests that Foo does Abc.
TEST(FooTest, DISABLED_DoesAbc) { ... }

class DISABLED_BarTest : public ::testing::Test { ... };

// Tests that Bar does Xyz.
TEST_F(DISABLED_BarTest, DoesXyz) { ... }
```

NOTE: This feature should only be used for temporary pain-relief. You still have
to fix the disabled tests at a later date. As a reminder, googletest will print
a banner warning you if a test program contains any disabled tests.

TIP: You can easily count the number of disabled tests you have using `gsearch`
and/or `grep`. This number can be used as a metric for improving your test
quality.

**Availability**: Linux, Windows, Mac.

#### Temporarily Enabling Disabled Tests

To include disabled tests in test execution, just invoke the test program with