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Starting Unit Testing in C++ guide
What if you have the Visual Studio C++ project and you want to add some unit tests to it? Visual Studio (starting from 2017) includes C++ unit test frameworks with no additional downloads. But I ran into some problems trying to make use of these frameworks. So I decided to write a “how to start Unit Test C++ guide” in case someone faces the same problems
So what do we need to start testing C++?
- Visual Studio 2017 or newer (Enterprise if you need code coverage analysis)
2. Check if installed C++/CLI support for (for Managed Test support)
3. Add a special lib project alongside your project. You can put the code you are going to test into it
4. Add a Unit Test project into the solution. I used the Managed Test project (for Native Unit Test see part two). If you do not have Managed Test Project template (it was removed in the latest versions of VS) — create CLR Class Library for C++ and add Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll to the references (it’s in extensions)
