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diff --git a/docs/why-catch.md b/docs/why-catch.md deleted file mode 100644 index 86cc55bc..00000000 --- a/docs/why-catch.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -<a id="top"></a> -# Why do we need yet another C++ test framework? - -Good question. For C++ there are quite a number of established frameworks, -including (but not limited to), -[Google Test](http://code.google.com/p/googletest/), -[Boost.Test](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html), -[CppUnit](http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppunit/index.php?title=Main_Page), -[Cute](http://www.cute-test.com), -[many, many more](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#C.2B.2B). - -So what does Catch bring to the party that differentiates it from these? Apart from a Catchy name, of course. - -## Key Features - -* Quick and Really easy to get started. Just download catch.hpp, `#include` it and you're away. -* No external dependencies. As long as you can compile C++11 and have a C++ standard library available. -* Write test cases as, self-registering, functions (or methods, if you prefer). -* Divide test cases into sections, each of which is run in isolation (eliminates the need for fixtures). -* Use BDD-style Given-When-Then sections as well as traditional unit test cases. -* Only one core assertion macro for comparisons. Standard C/C++ operators are used for the comparison - yet the full expression is decomposed and lhs and rhs values are logged. -* Tests are named using free-form strings - no more couching names in legal identifiers. - -## Other core features - -* Tests can be tagged for easily running ad-hoc groups of tests. -* Failures can (optionally) break into the debugger on Windows and Mac. -* Output is through modular reporter objects. Basic textual and XML reporters are included. Custom reporters can easily be added. -* JUnit xml output is supported for integration with third-party tools, such as CI servers. -* A default main() function is provided, but you can supply your own for complete control (e.g. integration into your own test runner GUI). -* A command line parser is provided and can still be used if you choose to provided your own main() function. -* Catch can test itself. -* Alternative assertion macro(s) report failures but don't abort the test case -* Floating point tolerance comparisons are built in using an expressive Approx() syntax. -* Internal and friendly macros are isolated so name clashes can be managed -* Matchers - -## Who else is using Catch? - -See the list of [open source projects using Catch](opensource-users.md#top). - -See the [tutorial](tutorial.md#top) to get more of a taste of using Catch in practice - ---- - -[Home](Readme.md#top) |