id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
7082,Add support for benchmarking,marco.craveiro@…,Gennadiy Rozental,"One useful thing with boost test would be to run the tests in a ""benchmarking mode"". The general idea is to be able to run many iterations of all tests to get an idea of their performance. I believe the following changes would be sufficient:

- BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE could have an additional optional parameter: number_of_iterations. This is set by the user manually. For example: BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(my_test_case, 10000). If not passed in, it would default to 1.
- A new command line parameter would trigger benchmarking: say --benchmarking. When passed in, all tests would run number_of_ iterations times.
- the elapsed time for a test would then be the accumulated time taken by all iterations

This would be great for nightlies.

This issue was discussed a bit on the mailing-list on this thread:

http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2011/01/65790.php",Feature Requests,new,To Be Determined,test,Boost 1.51.0,Not Applicable,,test benchmarking,