A large number of improvements have been made by subclassing the CppUnit classes
and overriding the base functions, including CompilerOutputter, TestListener,
and TextTestRunner. All IO has also been captured by the test runner.
The result is that during the test suite run, only the characters '.', 'F', and
'E' are output for a pass, failure and error state. At the end of each test
suite category, all failures and errors are reported in full detail, including
the different captured IO streams. A final synopsis is printed out, improving
the overview in the case of too many tests failing.
For the fgCompilerOutputter class, the printSuccess(), printFailureReport(),
printFailureDetail(), and printSuiteStats() functions have been replaced to
implement the above printout design. The class also stores the std::vector of
TestIOCapt structures for the final printouts.
The fgTestListener class handles the events from the running of the test suite.
The startTest() and endTest() functions are used for IO capture. The IO is
placed into a TestIOCapt data structure, with one std::string for holding the
combined STDOUT and STDERR IO, and another for the SG_LOG IO. If failures
occur, the TestIOCapt structure is appended to the fgCompilerOutputter vector.
The startTest() and endTest() functions are also used for starting and stopping
a timer to allow the full test suite to be timed. And the addFailure() function
simply registers test failures or errors.
The fgTestRunner class overrides the CppUnit::TextTestRunner::run() function,
simply to prevent the base method from spawning a second test listener, causing
the test output to be duplicated.
Some auxiliary formatting functions have been added to print out titles,
sections, and synopsis summary lines.
This includes the basic CMake infrastructure for building and executing the test
suite. Four test categories have been added - unit, system/functional, GUI, and
simgear unit tests. The test suite is run by typing 'make test_suite'.
All of the fgfs sources are included in the new run_test_suite executable,
excluding the bootstrap routine and its main() function. The test suite
currently consists of a single dummy unit test for the NasalSys subsystem, and a
single demonstration simgear/props unit test.
