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7 Welcome to **Google Test**, Google's C++ test framework!
9 This repository is a merger of the formerly separate GoogleTest and
10 GoogleMock projects. These were so closely related that it makes sense to
11 maintain and release them together.
13 Please see the project page above for more information as well as the
14 mailing list for questions, discussions, and development. There is
15 also an IRC channel on [OFTC](https://webchat.oftc.net/) (irc.oftc.net) #gtest available. Please
18 Getting started information for **Google Test** is available in the
19 [Google Test Primer](googletest/docs/Primer.md) documentation.
21 **Google Mock** is an extension to Google Test for writing and using C++ mock
22 classes. See the separate [Google Mock documentation](googlemock/README.md).
24 More detailed documentation for googletest (including build instructions) are
25 in its interior [googletest/README.md](googletest/README.md) file.
29 * An [xUnit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUnit) test framework.
31 * A rich set of assertions.
32 * User-defined assertions.
34 * Fatal and non-fatal failures.
35 * Value-parameterized tests.
36 * Type-parameterized tests.
37 * Various options for running the tests.
38 * XML test report generation.
42 Google test has been used on a variety of platforms:
52 ## Who Is Using Google Test? ##
54 In addition to many internal projects at Google, Google Test is also used by
55 the following notable projects:
57 * The [Chromium projects](http://www.chromium.org/) (behind the Chrome
58 browser and Chrome OS).
59 * The [LLVM](http://llvm.org/) compiler.
60 * [Protocol Buffers](https://github.com/google/protobuf), Google's data
62 * The [OpenCV](http://opencv.org/) computer vision library.
63 * [tiny-dnn](https://github.com/tiny-dnn/tiny-dnn): header only, dependency-free deep learning framework in C++11.
65 ## Related Open Source Projects ##
67 [GTest Runner](https://github.com/nholthaus/gtest-runner) is a Qt5 based automated test-runner and Graphical User Interface with powerful features for Windows and Linux platforms.
69 [Google Test UI](https://github.com/ospector/gtest-gbar) is test runner that runs
70 your test binary, allows you to track its progress via a progress bar, and
71 displays a list of test failures. Clicking on one shows failure text. Google
72 Test UI is written in C#.
74 [GTest TAP Listener](https://github.com/kinow/gtest-tap-listener) is an event
75 listener for Google Test that implements the
76 [TAP protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol) for test
77 result output. If your test runner understands TAP, you may find it useful.
79 [gtest-parallel](https://github.com/google/gtest-parallel) is a test runner that
80 runs tests from your binary in parallel to provide significant speed-up.
84 Google Test is designed to have fairly minimal requirements to build
85 and use with your projects, but there are some. Currently, we support
86 Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Cygwin. We will also make our best
87 effort to support other platforms (e.g. Solaris, AIX, and z/OS).
88 However, since core members of the Google Test project have no access
89 to these platforms, Google Test may have outstanding issues there. If
90 you notice any problems on your platform, please notify
91 [googletestframework@googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/googletestframework). Patches for fixing them are
94 ### Linux Requirements ###
96 These are the base requirements to build and use Google Test from a source
97 package (as described below):
99 * GNU-compatible Make or gmake
100 * POSIX-standard shell
101 * POSIX(-2) Regular Expressions (regex.h)
102 * A C++98-standard-compliant compiler
104 ### Windows Requirements ###
106 * Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 or newer
108 ### Cygwin Requirements ###
110 * Cygwin v1.5.25-14 or newer
112 ### Mac OS X Requirements ###
114 * Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger or newer
115 * Xcode Developer Tools
117 ### Requirements for Contributors ###
119 We welcome patches. If you plan to contribute a patch, you need to
120 build Google Test and its own tests from a git checkout (described
121 below), which has further requirements:
123 * [Python](https://www.python.org/) v2.3 or newer (for running some of
124 the tests and re-generating certain source files from templates)
125 * [CMake](https://cmake.org/) v2.6.4 or newer
127 ## Regenerating Source Files ##
129 Some of Google Test's source files are generated from templates (not
130 in the C++ sense) using a script.
132 file include/gtest/internal/gtest-type-util.h.pump is used to generate
133 gtest-type-util.h in the same directory.
135 You don't need to worry about regenerating the source files
136 unless you need to modify them. You would then modify the
137 corresponding `.pump` files and run the '[pump.py](googletest/scripts/pump.py)'
138 generator script. See the [Pump Manual](googletest/docs/PumpManual.md).
140 ### Contributing Code ###
142 We welcome patches. Please read the
143 [Developer's Guide](googletest/docs/DevGuide.md)
144 for how you can contribute. In particular, make sure you have signed
145 the Contributor License Agreement, or we won't be able to accept the