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Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development
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Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development

by Jeff Langr
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 20m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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8.8 Sidetracked by the Reality of Legacy Code

Our test suite fails! For each test, CppUTest compares memory at the start of its execution with memory at its completion and fails if there’s a mismatch. With a bit of probing, we discover the leaker culprit to be either the third-party logging library, rlog, or our WavReader application’s use of rlog. Dealing with the leak isn’t our primary goal. We need a way to move forward.

CppUTest allows us to turn off leak detection, but it’s a highly useful feature that we want to keep. Further, even if we turned off leak detection, the logging code—which appears throughout WavReader—spews messages onto the console every time we run tests. It’s a nuisance. What might we do other than grin and bear it? It’s ...

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