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The above code will run the test and the output will be generated in xml format. The xml file can be parsed and the details can be displayed in an appropriate way as per the requirements.
The above code will run the test and the output will be generated in xml format. The xml file can be parsed and the details can be displayed in an appropriate way as per the requirements.


== Running and compiling QTests with CTest ==
== Qt 4: Running and compiling QTests with CTest ==


CTest, by design, is only a facility for testing. For that it scales to very different unit tests frameworks, and works out of box with QTest.
CTest, by design, is only a facility for testing. For that it scales to very different unit tests frameworks, and works out of box with QTest.
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and run either directly by name of the test (test_${testname} as specified in the macro) or every test as batch with  
and run either directly by name of the test (test_${testname} as specified in the macro) or every test as batch with  
<code>make test</code>
<code>make test</code>
== Qt 5: Building Qt Tests ==
See [https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtest-overview.html#building-a-test Building a Test] in the [https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qttest-index.html Qt Test documentation].


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Unit testing with QTest

For a basic overview how to write unit tests with qtestlib, you should refer to the official manual.

Test Output

Output to a txt file

QStringList testCmd;
QDir testLogDir;
testLogDir.mkdir("UnitTest_Results");
testCmd<<" "<<"-o" <<"UnitTest_Results/test_log.txt";
QTest::qExec(myTestClass,testCmd);

Output in xml format:

QStringList testCmd;
QDir testLogDir;
testLogDir.mkdir("UnitTest_Results");
testCmd<<" "<<"-xml" <<"-o" <<"UnitTest_Results/test_log.xml";
QTest::qExec(myTestClass,testCmd);

The above code will run the test and the output will be generated in xml format. The xml file can be parsed and the details can be displayed in an appropriate way as per the requirements.

Qt 4: Running and compiling QTests with CTest

CTest, by design, is only a facility for testing. For that it scales to very different unit tests frameworks, and works out of box with QTest.

The snippet below goes to CMakeLists.txt, and specifies files that are used for the test.

enable_testing(true)
include_directories( test )

set(test_additional
 some_dependency.cpp
 some_other_dependency.cpp
)
add_test(dummytest test/DummyTest.cpp)

If you do not want to have tests built all the time, remove

enable_testing()

and run cmake with

cmake .. -DENABLE_TESTING=true

in order to build tests.

The macro below uses variable ${test_additional} to give additional source files for test to compile, the files that are needed for test. It adds the test with

add_test()

to ctest test "database".

MACRO (add_test testname testsrc)
 SET (test_${testname}_SRCS ${testsrc})

qt4_automoc(${test_${testname}_SRCS})
 add_executable(test_${testname} ${test_${testname}_SRCS} ${test_additional})
 target_link_libraries(test_${testname} ${QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY}
 ${QT_QTTEST_LIBRARY} ${QT_QTGUI_LIBRARY}
 ${GSOAP_LIBRARIES} ${QT_QTLOCATION_LIBRARY})

ADD_TEST(test_${testname} test_${testname})
ENDMACRO (add_test)

Tests can be compiled with

make

and run either directly by name of the test (test_${testname} as specified in the macro) or every test as batch with

make test

Qt 5: Building Qt Tests

See Building a Test in the Qt Test documentation.