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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:59:30+00:00

I want to set up a continuous integration and test framework for my open

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I want to set up a continuous integration and test framework for my open source C++ project. The desired features are:

1. check out the source code 2. run all the unit and other tests 3. run performance tests (these measure the software quality - for example how long does it take the system to complete the test) 4. produce a report based on 3. and 4. daily 5. archive the reports for future reference

To implement this, which test framework and what continuous integration process would you recommend? Right now I am leaning towards Google Test Framework (I am aware of some of the comparisons of unit test frameworks discussed in other questions) for tests and Cruisecontrol for continuous integration. But I don’t know if Cruisecontrol allows easy integration of performance metrics.

Edit: To answer Wilhelmtell, code should work with both Windows and Linux.

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  1. I am using CruiseControl and UnitTest++ today for exactly this task.

    UnitTest++ is really nice although I feel sometimes limited by it around the corner. At least it is 10 times better than cppunit. Still haven’t tried the google testing framework, it will be for my next project.

    I have been extremely disappointed by CruiseControl. There are a few bugs and questions asked on the mailing list were never answered. Many of the default ‘features’ to manage program execution and logging were not satisfying. We had to write our own report generation, our own stdout and stderr capturing, our own status mailer. There is not much left for CruiseControl, apart from running test at regular intervals and gathering them in a central web server.

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