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31 In this usage variant, you do not define macro <a class="link" href="../../utf_reference/link_references/link_boost_test_module_macro.html" title="BOOST_TEST_MODULE"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">BOOST_TEST_MODULE</span></code></a> and instead
32 provide the definition of function <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">init_unit_test</span></code>.
33 This is going to be the custom initialization function. The default <a class="link" href="../test_module_runner_overview.html" title="Test module runner">test runner</a>
34 will use it to initialize the test module.
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39 using custom initialization function</a>
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49 <pre xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" class="table-programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#define</span> <span class="identifier">BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API</span>
50 <span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">test</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">included</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">unit_test</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span>
51 <span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">iostream</span><span class="special">></span>
53 <span class="identifier">BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">test1</span><span class="special">)</span>
54 <span class="special">{</span>
55 <span class="identifier">BOOST_TEST</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">false</span><span class="special">);</span>
56 <span class="special">}</span>
58 <span class="keyword">bool</span> <span class="identifier">init_unit_test</span><span class="special">()</span>
59 <span class="special">{</span>
60 <span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">cout</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="string">"using custom init"</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">endl</span><span class="special">;</span>
61 <span class="keyword">return</span> <span class="keyword">true</span><span class="special">;</span>
62 <span class="special">}</span>
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74 <pre xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" class="table-programlisting"><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">custom_init</span>
75 <span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="identifier">custom</span> <span class="identifier">init</span>
76 <span class="identifier">Running</span> <span class="number">1</span> <span class="identifier">test</span> <span class="keyword">case</span><span class="special">...</span>
77 <span class="identifier">test</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">cpp</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">7</span><span class="special">):</span> <span class="identifier">error</span><span class="special">:</span> <span class="identifier">in</span> <span class="string">"test1"</span><span class="special">:</span> <span class="identifier">check</span> <span class="keyword">false</span> <span class="identifier">has</span> <span class="identifier">failed</span>
79 <span class="special">***</span> <span class="number">1</span> <span class="identifier">failure</span> <span class="identifier">is</span> <span class="identifier">detected</span> <span class="identifier">in</span> <span class="identifier">the</span> <span class="identifier">test</span> <span class="identifier">module</span> <span class="string">"Master Test Suite"</span>
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89 Because we overwrote the default initialization function, it does no
90 longer assign any name to the <a class="link" href="../../tests_organization/test_tree/master_test_suite.html" title="Master test suite">master
91 test suite</a>. Therefore the default name ("Master Test Suite")
96 For reporting errors that may occur during the initialization,
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100 either you return <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">false</span></code>
101 (valid only for the new API only, see <a class="link" href="../../utf_reference/link_references/link_boost_test_alternative_init_macro.html" title="BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API</span></code></a>)
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104 or you raise an exception such as <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">runtime_error</span></code>
105 or <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../../../boost/unit_test/framework/setup_error.html" title="Struct setup_error">boost::unit_test::framework::setup_error</a></code>
109 An error reported in this function aborts the execution of the test module.
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117 The reason for defining <a class="link" href="../../utf_reference/link_references/link_boost_test_alternative_init_macro.html" title="BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API</span></code></a>
118 is described <a class="link" href="../obsolete_init_func.html" title="The obsolete initialization function">here</a>.
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