Maybe I am not thinking about this correctly.
I am starting my second project using unit tests. My first project I rolled my own, for this project I am trying out Boost::test.
My question is, what are the proper procedures for unit testing projects that compile into executables? It seems like everything I see out there is for libraries and dependencies. I want my exe project to be unit tested, but I do not want a bunch of unit test functions floating around in the binary, nor do I want to do
#ifdef _DEBUG
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( my_func )
{
}
#endif
around all my tests.
I thought about creating a separate project for unit tests, but that does not really work for executable.. unless I want to do some fancy pre-build operation copying from my other project into the test project..
Any thoughts or ideas?
The project can be compiled as a library and this library linked, possibly statically, in two separate executables: the “project”, which will be delivered, and the unit tests.
Now the problem seems to originate from your IDE, which one is it ? Does it allow to create two binaries for one project ?