Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #5563: using a test macro in a global fixture crashes Boost.Test

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Gennadiy Rozental — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:20:22 GMT

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resolution → fixed

(In [75035]) avoid crash if testing tool is used in global fixture Fixes #5563

m.champlon@… — Sat, 26 May 2012 06:20:30 GMT

Hi,

As of 26/05/2012 the fix hasn't been merge to the release branch...

MAT.

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Raffi Enficiaud — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:23:20 GMT

milestone To Be Determined → Boost 1.59.0

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:07:25 GMT

Was the solution to this issue to make it impossible to use assertion checks within a global fixture? I find that to be pretty useful, and having moved from boost 1.53 to 1.59 I find I'm having to rewrite a lot of tests so they don't fail with an exception of:

throw std::runtime_error( "can't use testing tools outside of test case implementation" );

these tests never crashed before. Further, the patch that was provided does not provide a test that proves either if the issue existed before or whether it is fixed now.

Raffi Enficiaud — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:22:04 GMT

If I am not mistaken, the solution was to make it possible to use assertions and exceptions in global fixture (obviously not in the fixture dtor). If this is not working, please post the snippet and we will investigate.

Raffi Enficiaud — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:26:20 GMT

Ok, now I think I understand: the fix is to avoid the crash. There is a bug either in the implementation or in the documentation of 1.59.

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Raffi Enficiaud — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:26:31 GMT

status closed → reopened
resolution fixed

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Raffi Enficiaud — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:26:44 GMT

owner changed from Gennadiy Rozental to Raffi Enficiaud
status reopened → new

Raffi Enficiaud — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:00:54 GMT

Several major issues appeared while I was digging deeper into this issue:

test assertions in fixture dtor that stop the execution of the test crash the application in all case because of an exception in a dtor
test assertions in fixture ctor are currently not supported but not mentioned in the documentation. This limitation is mainly due to the order of initialization of the different components of the test framework.

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Raffi Enficiaud — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:01:17 GMT

milestone Boost 1.59.0 → To Be Determined

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Raffi Enficiaud — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:01:35 GMT

status new → assigned

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Raffi Enficiaud — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:53:02 GMT

milestone To Be Determined → Boost 1.65.0

Raffi Enficiaud — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:41:14 GMT

Fix pushed to develop rev ea9d9b9a8ea3f9aceb71cce41d48c820f05b2fdc

Raffi Enficiaud — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:50:57 GMT

See #11962 for the explanations of the fix.

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Raffi Enficiaud — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:41:45 GMT

status assigned → closed
resolution → fixed

In master, rev 3d13638c412ac357f178e99a99bf44dfd756c057